EDUCATIONAL POLICY

An educational policy is a binding guide, enforceable and enforced by the educational constituency responsible for its formulation. It is adopted to through collegial agreement which acknowledges the conflicting interests and desires of all those who will be affected by it.

2 MAJOR TYPES OF POLICIES

1. Public policies are those formulated by governments a. Domestic policies distributive, regulatory and redistributive policies b. Foreign / Defense policies are structural, strategic and crisis policies 2. Institutional policies the purpose of which is to govern the institutions management systems and operation practices

Institutional policies
Substantive policies

1. Organizational policies 2. Program policies 3. Project policies

Structural policies designed for specific management

sectors comprising the top management, middle management and lower management

 Organizational policies are those which gives unified

direction to the whole institution whether it is a university, business establishment and the like. Program policies are those which give direction to the institutional programs while supportive to organizational policies. Project policies are those which give direction to the institutional projects while supportive of program policies

In context, policies can be classified as:

1. Major policies 2. Derivative or supporting policies 3. Minor policies

MAJOR POLICIES are those that gives a unified direction to an entire enterprise or those that gives the primary shape of an enterprise in its accomplishment of purpose DERIVATIVE OR SUPPORTING POLICIES supportive of or dependent on major policies and yet act as guides to thinking and action while giving support to unified planning in certain areas MINOR POLICIES are those which may not be even be related to major policies

Types of Policy Makers

1.
2. 3.

4.
5. 6. 7.

Constitutional commissioners Congressmen and Senators Cabinet in the Executive branch Judicial department School boards and Councils Institutional policy making bodies Rank and file of the faculty and staff, the alumni, the students, parents and their kind

There are 6 Institutional policy making bodies : 1. School board 2. Administrative council 3. Academic council 4. Council of Deans 5. Research and development council 6. Board of Directors, Personnel Association

 Policy is anchored on educational philosophy,

Scope of policies

constitutional provisions, legislative acts, societal needs, imperatives and the like Policy influences the conduct of planning, programming, budgeting, implementation, evaluation and development Policy influences the pursuit of institutional goals and the behavior of the institution itself, including its program and program objectives as well as projects and project missions Policy influences the behavior of top, middle and lower management levels of the organizations and the behavior of its faculty and staff

Bases of Policy
1.
2. 3.

4.
5. 6.

Philosophy Ideology The Constitution Legislative acts, executive orders and Judicial decisions Societal needs and imperatives Emerging development issues

STEPS IN POLICY MAKING

1. Determination of the issue 2. Conduct of researches and referrals 3. Examination of alternatives 4. Formulation of the policy statement 5. Design of its support system 6. Submission to appropriate bodies for approval 7. Implementation 8. Monitoring effects 9. Evaluation