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Educational Management

Notes • Globalization of societies will require a common share of an international system of values :
account has to be taken of local and national cultural identities, as well as universal moral and
ethical consideration of tolerance, solidarity and human rights.
• The combination and parallelism of the fast evolution and progress of science and technology,
and of the massive and universal development of information and communication, have
numerous consequences on the vision of quality of education.
• In addition to setting the right educational processes, it is equally important to build management
capabilities and practices within universities, colleges and schools. There are four aspects of
management, which affect the overall quality of institutions.
(a) Institutional leadership : This includes the abilities of teacher and academicians to conceive
the vision of quality. This aspect is not just for the principals and/or vice chancellors or
deans to practice, but also needful for teachers in order to assume leadership in their
classrooms.
(b) Quality Administration : Administration function is important at two levels; i.e. institutional
and classroom. The principals or registrars manage the institutional administration.
Administration quality includes :
(c) Quality Assurance (QA) Framework : This revolves around three basic functions : Quality
planning, measuring quality and quality control, and initiatives for improving quality. Main
activities in educational institutions include : establishing indicators for performance
measurement, collecting such data and analyzing it, collecting and analyzing the root-cause
of quality problems.

• A highly qualified teacher does not mean high quality teacher. Highly qualified refers to high
level of degrees (e.g. MS or Ph D, etc.). Whereas, this seldom means he/she can teach the
subject matter effectively. For a teacher to be a good one, he/she will have to build capabilities
in many other fields, in addition to the subject matter.
• The chief wealth of leading edge enterprises lies in the qualities of their human capital, this is
all the more true for higher education establishment, so complex and demanding are the tasks
(education, research and services) required of them. On the part of teachers and researcher they
demand not only great ability but also involvement and ethical values meeting the requirements
of quality directed at social relevance. The quality of the staff implies, acceptable social and
financial status, a will to reduce inequalities such as those relating to gender; a concern to
manage staff in accordance with the merit principle and provide them with the in-service training
they need, in order to fulfil their role in a changing society.
• The quality of education and schooling is linked with the qualification of teachers, curriculum,
and educational material, teaching methodologies, equipment and physical facilities. It is well
understood that the real impact of these factors on quality of education can be determined
through valid and reliable examination. The performance measure of the students and teacher
is based on their examination results only.
• There are four main aspects of exams, which affect their quality:
(i) Planning : ensure compatibility with the lesson plans, independence, language, confidentiality,
etc.
(ii) Reliability and validity, ensure that exams measure what they are supposed to measure
keeping in view the bloom’s taxonomy
(iii) Management, ensure that it is conducted effectively, and
(iv) Analysis of results with appropriate statistical techniques and understanding.
• If there is any desire to pull out their nations from marshes of decline, decay and degradation,
education must be completely revamped and an important step in this direction is to introduce

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