Ami Volansky

Professor Ami Volansky was a faculty member at Tel Aviv University, School of Education until his retirement in 2015. His research focuses on education policy including school reforms, school effectiveness, school-based management and higher-education policy. His recent books include Academia in a Changing Environment: Higher Education Policy in Israel 1952-2004 (2005); The Pendulum Syndrome: Centralisation and Decentralisation of Education in England and Wales (2003); School-Based Management...See more

Professor Ami Volansky was a faculty member at Tel Aviv University, School of Education until his retirement in 2015. His research focuses on education policy including school reforms, school effectiveness, school-based management and higher-education policy. His recent books include Academia in a Changing Environment: Higher Education Policy in Israel 1952-2004 (2005); The Pendulum Syndrome: Centralisation and Decentralisation of Education in England and Wales (2003); School-Based Management: An International Perspective (2003), co-edited with Isaac Friedman, and Israel's Higher Education System 2000-2022, Politicization, Science and Society (2023). Professor Volansky has served as the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Education, the Deputy Director General for Policy Planning at the Ministry of Education, and as the advisor on higher education policy of four Ministers of Education. See less