Education Management Goal Setting

         

        Education management is the field of study and practice relating to the management or operation of educational organisations. It should be done in consonance to the purpose, aims or goals of education.

1. Subordination to Education – People in education management should formulate goals or purposes which should be the source of the very essence and direction of educational institutions and their management. This connection of the purpose and operation of schools must be clearly defined so that educational management can be done in the correct means. Without this, the educational set up and procedures are subjected to managerialism which will bring damage to the purpose and values of education. In true educational management, management does not have independent goals of its own; its goals should be dependent and subordinate to the goals of education. Managers of an educational institution can have as mission or objective which is efficiency; however, this efficiency in achieving the mission or objectives should be subordinate to the goals of education itself.
2. Heart of Education Management – Formulating the goals of an educational institution as an organisation is the most important element in educational management. There are cases wherein the organisational goals of the educational institution is formulated by the principal, usually in cooperation with senior colleagues and maybe a few certain lay stakeholders. However, there are many educational institutions which assign goal setting as a corporate activity to formal bodies, like the board of directors, or informally assembled groups.
3. Regulation – Aims of schools or any learning institution could be greatly shaped by pressures from external factors. For example, lots of countries promulgate national curriculums which usually allow very little freedom on the part of the management of the school in formulating their school goals and educational aims. Academic entities would be left with only the left-over task of giving their interpretation of the imperative given by the government instead of formulating goals based on student need assessments they have made on their own.