Saturday, September 1, 2012

EDUCATIONAL PLANNING Definition Objectives Steps

What is Educational Planning?

According to Philip H Coombs
"Educational Planning is the application of rational systematic analysis to the process of educational development with the aim of making education more effective in responding to the needs and goals of the students and society".

What are the importance of Educational Planning? 
1. Educational planing helps to attains the educational objectives. 
2. Educational planing helps to reduce the wastage of resources, manpower, time, finance.
3. Educational planing helps to keep pace with social development.
4. Educational planing helps to gives direction to administration.

Objectives of Educational Planning
1. Attained objectives of education.
2. Reduce wastage of resources.
3. Provide the base for accountability
4. Keep pace with social development.
5. Reduce regional imbalance in educational development.
6. Coordinate different educational activity. [example: Pre-primary to Primary, Primary to Secondary, Higher  Secondary to College Education etc.]
7. Overall (social, cultural, economic) development of country.

Steps of Educational Planning
1. Deciding the educational objectives based on educational policy.
2. Analysis of the recent trends and the present situation. SWOT (Strength / Weakness / Opportunity / Threat) analysis to find out the alternative.
3. Selection of the best alternative.
4. Preparation of the of the plan. That is how to do the work, find out source of resource and requirement of schedule timing.
5. Implementation and monitoring (supervision).
6. Evaluation

Types of Educational Planning
1. Macro Planes and 2. Micro Plans

Macro Plans in Education 
In educational planning Central level and State levels plans are macro plans. It is long term plans.
  • Central Level Plans
  • State level plans
Micro Plans in Education 
In educational planning District level, Block level and Institution level planning are micro planning. It can be both long term and short term
  • District level
  • Block level
  • Institution level
Micro plans helps Macro plans to succeeds.

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