Managing Skills of the Education and Training Process of Higher Education Managers in Albanian Universities

Kseanela Sotirofski

doi:10.5901/ajis.2014.v3n4p499

Abstract

Universities are institutions of knowledge acquisition, storage and dissemination. The most important source of information age is information on the application and human benefit. Therefore, it must be appropriate for the age of the vision and work of university administrators. However, in recent years, university administrators, with regard to the qualifications required, they are selected according to criteria that do not serve directly to the university. Development and change at our age, so that we can come to a position of competing with the world conditions of university administrator, is an inevitable necessity. This research has been conducted by university administrators in Albania. It focuses on educational leadership roles they perform and their level of importance as it reveals the differences and similarities between these levels. At the same time, it relates to university administrators for both countries because it is a research on educational leadership in higher education and will provide an important resource for subsequent research. In this research, it is shed light on the acquisition of qualification required for Albanian higher education administrators. Additionally, this research, may contribute to the role of leadership by the higher education administrators for the developing higher education systems. At the end of this research about Albanian universities, the results will serve educational leadership and there will be a better diagnosis of the tasks arising from it. This may affect their quality variables. Moreover, it will have an impact on managerial decisions and is intended to enhance educational quality. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2014.v3n4p499

Highlights

Administrators who work in higher education institutions should be always sensitive to manage the teaching and learning process and to be an ispiration model of this process.The network comprises university, local, regional, national and international, economic, social and cultural factors
Some of the research on the subject suggested that managers believe it is the lack of sufficient time to make the desired quality instructional leadership
As regards the data collection tool, we used the questtionaire developed by Mehmet Fat "Serve Instructional Leadership Behavior Survey Determining Level of Managers in Universities"

Summary

Introduction

Administrators who work in higher education institutions should be always sensitive to manage the teaching and learning process and to be an ispiration model of this process. Effective managers usually know the problems of teaching environment and determine educational goals and objectives (Griffin, 1993: 35) These leaders attach importance to high academic standards and the supervision of their lecturers and evaluation. The main task of the managers of educational institutions is to ensure the transformation of educational practices of the organization's objectives This task, instructors’ goals with organizational goals coordinated upgrade, maintain and support from them requires monitoring the classroom teaching through informal classroom visits. Aydin (1986: 31) stated the purpose of educational supervision, teaching and enhancing the learning process and to make it effective This task consists of all of the class activities which should focus on the planned and scheduled activities. There is a more effective and high-quality output

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