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Educational Management

Notes capacities and the demands of society. Rules for their admission, promotion, discipline, etc.,
have to be framed and implemented.
(3) Personnel : Man power has to be found and engaged to run educational activities necessary.
Personnel play the key role in education. This is the fly-wheel or the driving force of the
educational machinery. Proper attention has to be paid to the workers. Men and women have
to be selected, recruited and trained and their qualifications and standards have to be prescribed.
Good service conditions, attractive salaries, security of tenure, welfare service and retirement
benefits have to be offered to bring in the best available talent. Schemes for their direction,
guidance and supervision have to be drawn up. Last but not least, a good and effective
programme for the worker, continuous development and professional progress through
reorientation and in-service education has the be lauched.
(4) Finance : It includes problems of income and expenditure and their accounting and auditing.
Decisions have to be taken about the sharing of the cost of education among the centre, and the
States and the Local Bodies. The policy of taxation and prescribing fees,etc., has to be formulated.
Rules and regulations have to be framed for budgeting, spending and controlling of funds and
resources.
(5) Curriculum : It is the means of achieving the goals of education. Educational administration
has to deal with the problems of curriculum construction and its day to day development. It has
also to look after the continuous evaluation and progressive improvement of the educational
programme which are urgently called for in view of the constantly going on scientific,
technological and social changes. Administration has also to pay close attention to the teaching-
learning programme and process and to matters of preparation, selection and supply of text-
books and other instructional material. Important pupil services, such as health and recreation
and psychological services of testing and records, guidance and counselling and Co-curricular
activities, etc. have to be organised and administered for the benefit of the young.
(6) Physical Facilities : It comprises of the area dealing with the problem of provision and
maintenance of the school, plant, equipment and supplies, etc., their production, purchase upkeep
and accounting.
(7) Public Relations : Education is a social enterprise run with the cooperation of students, teachers,
parents and the community. Educational administration has to make each of them contribute
its due share to the success of the enterprise. It should, therefore, maintain effective public
relations. This involves maintenance of records, issuing periodical reports, information and
bulletins about past achievement and future proposals.
Administration should encourage community visitation and secure its participation and
cooperation by a process of give and take, i.e., by utilising community resources and rendering
useful services for its welfare.

22.3 Maintenance of Discipline

The world “Discipline” is supposed form the Latin word “Disciplina” which means management,
rule, education, practice, teaching and trained condition. The derivation of English word “Disciple”
is supposed form the Latin world “Discipulum” which means pupil. This is expected form the
pupils that he should obey his teachers respectfully and according to him, he should develop necessary
and required qualities in himself for successful life. In this way, the meaning of discipline is to
create regularity in conduct. Lot of words are used in Hindi for discipline, for example, control
regulation, self-restraint, courtesy and discipline etc. The use of the word “control” would be
appropriate at the place where someone is to be kept forcibly in possession. Where according to
some fixed rules, the man is asked to do work, there “regulation“ would be used. Where the child
obeys his elders with courtesy and respect, there the word “Courtesy” would be proper to use. But,

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