By James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. PosnerThe authors approach leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors. This 360 degree leadership assessment tool helps individuals and organizations measure their leadership competencies, while guiding them through the process of applying Kouzes and Posner’s acclaimed Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership Model to real-life organizational challenges. 

Innovation across local government has been boosted with 34 successful bids from councils for a share of the 6 million pounds e-innovations fund. There were unsuccessful bids from 90 councils. The successful councils, who have had to provide matching funding, will deliver their innovative ideas by March 2005.The projects cover four themes. 

A new pay award scheme for excellent teachers has been announced by Education Secretary Charles Clarke. The proposals, based on the recommendations of the independent School Teachers’ Review Body, will give excellent teachers a maximum annual salary of 34,872 pounds from April 2004.