Critical Role of Governance in Educational Institutions
Keywords:
Educational Institutions Governance, Structure, Function, Meghalaya, IndiaAbstract
Governance promotes effective delivery of education services and should result in outstanding performance of the pupils. Weak structure of the Governing Body (GB) will result in poor functioning and affect the well-being of the educational institutions and their activities. To make any sustainable changes relating to proper governance, especially of minority institutions, there is an urgent need to carry out a proper study on governance, and hence a major research project was done during 2009-10 on a representative random sample of 36 church operated educational institutions in Meghalaya interviewing in depth the GB members and institutional heads in terms of responsiveness to ground level realities, problems faced, efficiency and effectiveness. Despite several lacunae in GB membership and deficiencies in optimal functioning, there was still a statistically significant bivariate and multivariate correlation between the GB rating and institutional performance of +0.66 and +0.79 respectively. With re-balancing of the structure in terms of gender, age, tenure and skills, there would be better functioning and much higher institutional outputs, especially in the performances of the pupils.. Several suggestions are made,, hopefully resulting in clearly written policies and suitable guidelines on how the board members can best work together with all stakeholders (196 words)
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