New Resource Spotlight: Strengthening School Management: A Guide for Optimizing the Use of Health Workforce Education Resources

Aug 14, 2015
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Education and training institutions around the globe are struggling to meet the increasing demand for more health workers who are capable of providing high-quality family planning, HIV/AIDS, and maternal and child health services to expanding populations. 
 
A more business-like approach to operating and managing these institutions would allow schools to produce greater numbers of competent and qualified graduates within current, marginally expanding, or even decreasing budgets. However, senior school leaders frequently rise to their positions through academic and clinical promotions, acquiring little formal management, administrative, or business training along the way. 

CapacityPlus’s Strengthening School Management: A Guide for Optimizing the Use of Health Workforce Education Resources is a cyclical approach to strengthening school management. It raises awareness of the important role school management plays in achieving educational goals and helps school leaders manage their schools more efficiently and effectively—with the overarching aim of scaling up the production of relevant, competent, and qualified graduates.
 
The guide includes self-assessment against management standards and good practices, followed by prioritization, goal-setting, planning, implementation, and monitoring of progress. The process involves critically examining and improving practices in nine management dimensions:
  • Leadership and governance
  • Strategic planning
  • External relations
  • Financial resources
  • Personnel
  • Students
  • Equipment and materials
  • Facilities and infrastructure
  • Evaluation and knowledge management

Access the guide and tools: 

Strengthening School Management: A Guide for Optimizing the Use of Health Workforce Education Resources

Self-Assessment Tool/Questionnaire [Word] [Excel]

Planning Matrix

Dean’s Dashboard (forthcoming)

Additional School Management Tools and Resources

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