A. Meaning of Educational Management
Management is the process of planning, organising, directing, controlling and evaluating to accompish predetermined objectives of an institution through coordinated use of human and material resources.
Management is the Art/Science of:- Getting work done.
With the help of other people Within the given budget
Within the given deadlines
Management as an academic discipline refers to,‖ substantive body of knowledge of concepts, theories, laws and applications in practice.
Henry Fayol:- To manage is to ― forecast and plan, to organise, to command, to coordinate and to control.‖
Donald J Clough:- Management is the heart and science of decision making and leadership.
Education is the provision of a series of learning experiences to students in order to impart knowledge, values, attitudes and skills with the ultimate aim of making them productive members of society.
Educational Management is ,‖The process of planning, organizing, directing and controlling the activities of an institution by utilizing human and material resources so as to effectively and efficiently accomplish functions of teaching, extension work and research.‖
B. Need of educational management: Policy at the national level focuses on social, economic and cultural development. The best means to achieve the development in these spheres is through human resource development and Education. There have been tremendous advance in the field of technology—this is made available to society only through education.
The field of education is expected to provide society with human resources which have specialized knowledge, attitudes, work ethics, social, moral & political values and skills so as to sustain and enhance the expected development of the nation.
Thus, 1. Education has to make its curriculum more relevant to life and needs of a changing society in an effective and efficient manner.
2. Education therefore has to be