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Educational Management

Notes (14) Role as a Bridge Builder Between the School and the Community : A supervisor should be
adept in fostering good public relations; securing community participation for improving and
developing educational institutions; making institutions conscious of the need to serve the
community better.
To sum up the qualities of an inspector, it may be stated that he should a man of learning, faith,
pains taking with life and energy and imbued with a spirit of progress and experimentation
and above prejudices of all petty personal affiliations.

The expenses incurred on inspection in all the States are very meagre. The Study
Group (referred to above) found that the expenditure on inspection and direction
varies from 0.6 to 3.0 per cent of total expenditure on education from State to State,
with the all-India average of 2.2 per cent.

20.4 Selection of Inspectors

In view of the multifarious functions an inspection is expected to perform, it is very essential that
sufficient care is taken in the selection of the inspecting personnel. It is suggested by the Secondary
Education Commission that a person to be chosen as an Inspector should possess high academic
qualifications (an Honours or Master’s degree with teacher’s training) and should have had teaching
experience in schools for at least ten years, or should have been a Headmaster of a High School for
a minimum period of three years. In addition to direct recruitment the Inspector should also be
drawn from :
(i) Teachers of ten year’s experience.
(ii) Experienced Headmasters of High Schools,
(iii) Qualified staff of Training Colleges.
The Commission further recommends that suitable persons from any of three categories may be
appointed as Inspectors for a period of three to five years after which they may revert to their
original posts. This will enable them to appreciate the position of the Inspector and to approach the
problems of the schools with greater appreciation of the realities from their own experience.
The Zakir Hussain Committee has substituted the word ‘Supervisor’s for inspectors. According to
this report an efficient and supervisory staff is almost as important for the new schools as well
trained teaching personnel. Supervision is a fairly supervised work and we would recommend that
provision should be made for the training of supervisor to meet the ever-growing needs of an
expanding school system. The minimum qualification for a supervisor. According to the Zakir Hussain
Committee, should be complete training as a basic school teacher together with at least two year’s
experience of successful teaching and a year of special training in the work of supervision and
administration Supervision should not be mere inspection, it should mean personal co-operation
and help offered by one who knows more to a less experienced or less resourceful colleague.
Supervisors should indeed be able to play the role of leaders and guides in the educational experiment.
In order that the more important obligations of helpful guidance and leadership may be properly
fulfilled. It is necessary that the load of unavoidable and administrative routine should be as light
as possible. Therefore there should be an adequate number of supervisors and the supervisory
districts should not be un-manageably large. This will mean greater expense but economy here will
be a bad economy.

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