Registry
Module Specifications
Archived Version 2004 - 2005
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To enable participants to:
Gain insight into policy formulation and the factors which affect it
Understand the factors which impinge on education/training management
Appreciate the role of budgeting and budgetary control in education/training management
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Participants will be able to:
Describe the main contributors to policy formulation
Identify how policy impinges on education/training management
Evaluate the role of budgeting and budgetary control in education/training management
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Assume that a 7.5 credit module load represents approximately 112.5 hours' work, which includes all teaching, in-course assignments, laboratory work or other specialised training and an estimated private learning time associated with the module. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indicative Syllabus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The dynamics of policy formulation Strategic planning at an institutional level Boundary Management Budgeting and Budgetary control: control in organisations, preparation of budgets, performance reports, motivation and aspiration level, participative budgeting, contingency theory and budgetary controls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Indicative Reading List | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Essential: Mintzberg, H & Quinn, B (1992) The Strategy Process, Concepts & Contexts, New York, Prentice Hall Levacic, R. (1989) Financial Management in Education, Milton Keynes, OU Press Senge, P. (1999) The Dance of Change. Nicholas Brealey Publishing. London Supplementary: Anthony, R.W. and Young, D.W. (1988) Management Control in Non Profit Organisations, Homewood, Ill: Irwin. Purdy, D.E. (1993) Accounting, Controls and the Perceptions of Managers: A Longitudinal Study of Ward Units in a Teaching Hospital in financial Accountability & Management, 9(1), pp 45 - 66 Weatherly, C. (2000) Leading the Learning School. MPG Books. Cornwall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Programme or List of Programmes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GEM | Grad Dip in Ed. & Training Management | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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