During the 2005-06 academic year he collaborated as an international consultant in the OECD Programme on IMHE. He specialises in education policy including centralisation and decentralisation processes, school reforms, school leadership, school-based management and higher education policy. His recent books are Academia in a Changing Environment: Higher Education Policy in Israel 1952-2004, The Pendulum Syndrome: Centralisation and Decentralisation of Education in England and Wales (2003), and School-Based Management: An International Perspective (2003), co-edited with Friedman.,