The Impact of Overseas Fellowship Training on the Quality of Educational Management in Pakistan

Abstract

This article is mainly concerned with the impact of Overseas Fellowship Training (OFT) imparted through the ADB assisted Teacher Training Project on the quality of educational management. The Teacher Training project was started in 1994 and closed in 2001. Overseas Fellowship training was imparted to educational managers/teacher educators abroad in 1998 to broaden their vision about educational management.
Population of the study consisted of 92 educational managers/teacher educators, who received Overseas Fellowship training. The study was carried out on a sample of 30 educational managers/teacher educators selected from the population of the study. This study will help to educate managers/teacher educators to understand the problems of management system.
The majority of the respondents agreed that the Overseas Fellowship training was effective as a whole. A positive change was also noticed in their behaviour. However, our analysis revealed that some areas of management were found to be deficient, i.e., monitoring the institutions’ broad aims and objectives, written strategic plan, library/resource centres, open access to learning resources, building/classrooms and labs upkeep, well planned and organized learning environment, teaching and learning strategies, review and evaluation system in the institutions.