Manjinder Kaur

Abstract: Academic administration in secondary teacher education institutes seems to be most important factor for smooth running of these institutions, required to produce high quality teachers. At the top of academic administration in these institutions, there comes the managing trustee who controls the governance. Therefore, in this work, we tried to evaluate the academic administration of managing trustees of secondary teacher education institutes in Gujarat and discussed in detail. It is natural to assume that academic administration in these institutions can be affected by various direct or indirect factors. Therefore, for this study, different variable such as gender (male/female), and nature (reserve/unreserved) of managing trustees as well as location (rural/urban) and type of the institute (aided/non-aided) have been considered. A quantitative approach employing null hypothesis has been employed, where a questionnaire was constructed and validated before its application. The present findings are expected to shed light on the various factors affecting the academic administration by managing trustees and would help in achieving better academic administration.

TL;DR: Kaur et al. as discussed by the authors evaluated academic administration of student teachers, teacher educators, principals and managing trustees in secondary teacher education institutions in Gujarat and compared different factors such as gender and nature (reserve/unreserved) of the participants, as well as location (rural/urban) and type of the institution (aided/non-aided), that could affect the academic administration, that would help in achieving better academic administration.

TL;DR: In this article, an attempt has been made to evaluate the academic administration in secondary teacher education institutes in Gujarat, India in perspective of principles, and the importance of academic administration lies in the fact that academic administration of these institutions has never been evaluated on a large scale, in past.