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Educational Management

Notes (2) Sargent Report : A post-war-educational development plan was prepared in 1944 by the Central
Advisory Board of Education. It was known as the Sargent Report.
(3) Planning Advisory Board (1946) : In 1946, the interim government at the centre set up a planning
advisory board to suggest the administrative arrangements for implementing the plans prepared
by various provincial governments.
(4) Planning Commission (1980) : In 1980, the Government of India passed a resolution and created
a planning commission. The Commission has been busy in preparing a number of Five-year-
Plans, Annual Plans and the Rolling Plan (1978-83). The Prime Minister is the Chairman of the
Planning Commission.
(5) State Department for Planning : Every State Government has a separate department for planning
development headed by a secretary, an I.A.S. Officer. It is responsible for coordinating the
departmental plans.

What is monitoring mechanism ?

Self Assessment

1. Fill in the blanks :
(i) Educational Planning is a kind of ______ anticipation.

(ii) Educational Planning must be ______ and ______.
(iii) ______ in the context of Educational Planning is an effort to make a fair assessment of
achievements and constraints.
(iv) ______ are statements which state clearly what is to be achieved and have definite time
frame.
(v) A ______ is incomplete, if it does not contain detailed plan for implementation of the
programmes and projects that the plan contains.
(vi) ______ refers to the process of converting on Educational Plan into an operating time table.
(vii) ______ is a network based procedures that facilitates planning, scheduling and controlling
of Educational Programmes.
(viii) A post war Educational development plan was prepared in ______ by the ______.
(ix) Modern Educational Planning in a ______ ______ and scientific process different from the
elementary kinds of procedures.

7.6 Summary

• Planning selects among alternatives, explores routes before travel begins and identifies possible
or probable outcomes of action before the executive and his organization is commited to any.
• The following viewpoints have been utilized by the experts to understand and explain the
meaning and nature of planning.
(i) Forecasting : Educational planning is describing or defining or determining events, conditions
and needs of some future point in time. It implies forecasting or projections of important
factors in education such as number and types of students and expansion of facilities needed
for them.

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