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Educational Management

Notes 31.6 Summary

• Decentralization of educational planning and management is a major concern in India.
• The need for developing organisational arrangements to facilitate educational planning in a
decentralised framework was recognised for a long time in India.
• Various efforts were made in the past to create such an institutional structure at the state level.
• In the 1980s as a follow-up to the National Policy on Education, there was an effort to create
State Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (SIEPA) at the state level.
• In the 1990s the efforts towards decentralised planning in education, keeping district as a unit
for planning, took a more concrete shape. With the initiation of large scale externally funded
educational projects in primary education, the demand for local level capacity to prepare district
plans in education increased.
• NIEPA has been advocating setting-up of SIEMAT as a separate institute. This is more so in
states which are big and where the number of educational administrators to be trained are
large.
• SIEMAT is an academic institution and any academic institution requires an element of autonomy
in its operation to develop it into a professional institution.
• There are strong grounds for setting up SIEMAT as a separate institute.
• The organisational structure of the SIEMAT may be related to its expected role. The specific
requirements may vary from state to state.
• The organisational structure to be developed for an institute like SIEMAT may reflect some of
these concerns.
• In any organisation, the orientation of the faculty members will decide the nature of activities
that can be effectively undertaken.
• The major activity of the Institute will be research and training, apart from policy support
which the institute may be providing to decision makers at different levels.
• Capacity building for research activities cannot be organised through short- duration training
programmes, although it is possible to train faculty members in a particular research
methodology within a short duration.
• The link between research and training is provided through developing training materials.
• Given the increasing demand, the institute may be forced to organise training programmes
during the initial stage itself.
• The evidence cited in the preceding sections and wider acceptability of Prof. Amartya Sen’s
formulations clearly show a shift in the paradigms from the earlier growth model based on
accumulation of physical capital and labour force to the new approach based on behaviour of
the people responsible for the accumulation of productive factors and knowledge.

31.7 Keywords

• Creation : The act or process of making something that is new.
• Effort : The physical or mental energy that you need to do something.
• Orientation : The type of aims or interest that a person or an organization has.

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