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Educational Management

Notes and procedures, in preparation for a plan of some form ( that could be an audit, assessments,
quality checks etc.).
• Education in most schools is one dimensional, with an obsessive focus on marks. The products
of Indian school education tend to be narrow minded and even selfish in their aims and approach.
• Even a cursory interaction with naturally bright rural children and teachers reinforces the view
that there is indeed a huge amount of unutilized talent and creativity, which if given even the
most basic opportunity will produce major benefits for the community and country.
• Indian higher education is one of the best and the second biggest in the World after U.S.A.
• When we compare the higher education with the other developed and leadingdeveloping
countries we find that only 7.5% of Indian youth in the age group of 17 -23 years are studying
in the institutions of higher education whereas 15.22% of the youth access to the higher education
in many other countries.
• Central and State Universities, Deemed Universities, Institutions of National Importance,Research
Institutions and Colleges for General Education in Arts, Sciences and Commerce and Colleges
for Professional Education are regarded as the Institutions of Higher education in India.

5.6 Keywords

• Application : a formal (often written) request for something.
• Reservoir : a natural or artificial lake where water is stored before it is taken by pipes
to house, etc.
• Scenario : a description of how things might happen in the future.

5.7 Review Questions

1. Define SWOT analysis.
2. Explain the SWOT analysis at higher level of higher education.
3. Explain SWOT analysis at elementary and secondary level of education.
4. Write about Indian education system of India.

Answer: Self Assessment
1. (i) Productive, creative (ii) learning
(iii) obsessive (iv) children
(v) Inspirational
2. (i) True (ii) False (iii) True (iv) False
(v) True

5.8 Further Readings

1. The Principles and Practice of Educational Management: Tony Bush, Les Bell,
SAGE Publisher, 2002.
2. Educational Management : Strategy, Quality, and Resources, Margaret Preedy, Ron
Glatter, Publiser Open University Press, 1997.
3. Educational Management: Theory and Practice, J.A. Okumbe, Publisher Bairobi
University Press, 1998.

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