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General
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A Bureau of Educational Planning and Management was created in the 1970s within the Ministry of Education. It was converted into the Academy of Educational Planning and Management in 1982 and given the legal status of an autonomous organization. Its general mandate is to provide training opportunities to administrators and supervisors at different levels of the education system. Its main functions are to: offer pre-service training to those considered for appointment as educational planners and administrators and in-service training to these, once employed; conduct specialized training programmes in computers and data processing; organize conferences, seminars and workshops on issues in educational planning; identify, develop and evaluate education projects; collect and analyse educational statistics and data; carry out action oriented research; provide expert advisory services to the provincial education departments and other institutions. |
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General Organisation |
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A Board of Governors, under the chairmanship of the Federal Education Secretary, administers the affairs of the Academy. The Academy is headed by a Director-General and consists of five divisions: Training, Management Information System (MIS), Administration and Finance, Research, and, Communication & Publications. Part HI: Profiles of the present member institutions The staff consists of 90 persons, of which 24 are professionals. AEPAM is presently a semi-governmental body, under the Ministry of Education. It is financed by the Federal Government Budget. Foreign assistance funds in part some limited operations, such as the computerization of the library. |
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Main
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AEPAM is engaged in research, training as well as consultancy work. It has organized or co-organized more than 125 seminars, workshops and training courses, mainly of short duration: from a few days to a few weeks. It has no regular training programme, but plans its courses in function of the demand. Several of its recent courses have been in computer skills. Over the last few years, it also organized different courses on educational planning and management and on girls' education for school principals, heads of teacher training colleges and district-based education officers. Its research work has covered many different fields in educational planning and management. Surveys and statistical reports have been prepared by the MIS division. In recent years, research has covered the following priority areas: • issues of inequity in education: status of female education, planning for educational facilities in less developed areas, determinants of educational participation in rural areas; • analysis of private education; • evaluation of teacher training programmes; • evaluation of the collection, reliability and use of data in primary education. Consultancy services are provided in particular to provincial authorities and to different national organizations in such areas as data collection techniques, the establishment of an education management information system and training methods. A total of more than a hundred publications have resulted from these training, research and consultancy activities. An AEPAM newsletter was published between 1987 and 1992; this newsletter is now being revived as a quarterly publication. |
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Prospects
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In
order to strengthen AEPAM, the following operations are foreseen: |
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