Under the Prime Minister’s Education Reform Program (PMERP),
Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) carried out training of
844 heads and deputy heads of educational institutions in
two months of August and September this year.
The Project
Management Unit (PMU) of the PMERP developed a School Management Manual (SMM)
to improve the management and administration of the educational institution by
following certain set of policies and procedures.
The Manual is
aimed at the capacity building of school management all across Federal
Directorate of Education and impart best practices followed in managing schools
all across the world. The school management also learned to design
interventional strategies and the techniques to gauge feed-back from students
and teachers.
On the successful
completion of the training course, the Minister for CADD, Dr. Tariq Fazal
Chaudhry said that there was a dire need to develop such a SMM to bring
uniformity in the management of public sector educational institutions. He said
that the introduction of such uniform policies and procedures would bring
clarity in the role of school management.
The Minister
further said that the Manual is first ever document of its kind for the
management of public schools and it provides a set of directions and standard
operating procedures to manage each aspect of the school operations
successfully.
In addition, it
provides SOPs for record keeping, handing-taking over for smooth transition of
educational leader, professional development of staff and performance
management, among others. The guidelines in the manual are supplemented with
samples for better clarity.
Keeping in view
the significance of this manual, three days training course was developed by
PMU Team for school heads and deputy heads so that they can implement the
manual in true letter and spirit.
Program was
implemented through master trainers and 844 (heads & deputy heads) were
trained in 21 batches under this program from six sectors including Model and
FG Colleges.
