1. Program Goals
To produce competent educational planners and managers that can handle leadership responsibilities under the context of changing environment and decentralized educational system.
2. Program Objectives
Essentially, the general objective of this program is to produce educational leaders and researchers who can address educational demands and challenges through critical analysis of educational institutions’ environment (political, economic, socio-cultural, and technological). Moreover, the program is aimed to produce democratic, visionary, innovative, change oriented and professionally committed educational planners and managers that can hold leadership responsibilities under decentralized educational contexts. Specifically the program objectives are:-
- Produce educational planners, managers and supervisors who are well informed of the national and regional constitutions, thereby assume leadership positions and responsibilities
- Produce educational planners and mangers that can generate, manage and utilize educational resources effectively and efficiently
- Produce educational planners and managers who can initiate educational changes, innovations and developments by addressing local and regional needs and realities.
- Produce educational planners and mangers that can mobilize and involve the local communities and thereby strengthen the school and community relationship.
- Produce educational planners and managers who are capable of solving educational problems by applying skills of educational research
- Produce educational Leaders who lead all activities in educational organizations towards the realization of organizational vision and mission.
- Produce educational leaders who are competent in the area of instructional leadership.
3. Professional Profile
The graduates of Educational Planning & Management will be able to:
- Understand and apply constitutional provisions, educational policies and strategies and related legislations in the management of education.
- Provide professional support (serve as supervisors) to teachers in the areas of instruction, curriculum development and professional development in order to improve the success of students.
- Apply and manage policies and guidelines relevant to human and other resources utilization.
- Undertake action and basic research to improve their professional competence and solve educational management problems.
- Assess, control and assure quality of education at varies level
- apply best educational practices in the local context
- plays vital role in the development process of the society
- Develop, manage and evaluate educational plans, programs and projects.
- Initiate and manage educational innovations and changes.
- Conduct educational research & apply it to educational context
Generally, graduates will develop professional competencies in educational/school organization and management, communication, teamwork, decision making, planning, educational leadership and research. All of which are highly valued by employers. Because of the wide range of generic skills and the rigor with which they are taught, training in educational planning and management is widely accepted as providing an excellent preparation for a number of careers. These graduates are, therefore, qualified members of their professional community; they could serve as professional school leaders, planners, managers, researchers, education experts, consultants, decision makers, educators, and trainers in educational organization settings.
4. Graduate Profile
The department /program/ of educational Planning and management runs the Bachelor of Arts degree Program to produce professionals and meet the manpower needs of the education sector in the area. This program is designed to professionalize educational planners and Managers that can handle Leadership responsibilities in a decentralized system of educational organization and management as stipulated in the Education and training policy. Specifically, graduates of Educational Planning and Management program will have the following competencies:
- Understand and apply constitutional provisions, educational policies and strategies and related legislations in the management of education.
- Effectively implement educational programs (e.g., SIP, CPD, ICT, etc.) and policies introduced by the Ministry of Education.
- Apply different management tools and skills pertinent to the organizational and environmental context and ensure organizational success.
- Providing educational leadership that fits to situational and organizational realities or that enables organizations be transformed.
- Mobilize and promote higher level community participation in the management of
- Integrate and effectively manage technology use in education and in the management of education.
- Exercise effective instructional leadership and enhance the achievement of students.
- Effectively and efficiently manage the physical, material, financial, information resources for successful accomplishment of organizational goals.
5. Admission Requirements
Applicants for admission to the Bachelor’s degree program in educational planning and management must satisfy the following criteria:
- Successful completion of freshman program (general education courses) set by the university.
- Have a diploma in educational management or related teaching subjects with a minimum cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 2:00 at graduation from an accredited Teacher training institution OR
- Teaching or administrative experiences in educational organizations will be an advantage to get admission to the program.
6. Graduation Requirement
In order to graduate, a student should successfully complete all the designed courses. Moreover, the candidate is required to obtain:
- CGPA of at least 2.00 at graduation.
- A student should take a total of 244 EtCTS/148 Cr hrs.
- No "F" grade in any course