Abstract
Devolution Plan 2000 was promulgated in all provinces of Pakistan in the year 2001 through
Provincial Local Government Ordinance and the purpose was to devolve political,
administrative and financial powers from provincial governments to district governments.
Education at elementary and secondary level was initially controlled by provincial
government and with devolution of powers it filtered down to district governments. Head
teachers of the high school are now more accountable to district governments which
controlled most of the academic, administrative and financial matters of the school. This study
explored two aspects in this regard. On one hand, it explored the current source of powers in
public sector schools and on the other hand, it discovered the extent to which they wish
academic, administrative and financial powers to be devolved in future. Out of 387 of the total
head teachers 341 responded to the questionnaire. The results of the study showed that
approximately 80 % of the HTs feel authorized to manage the academic matters. Nearly 60 %
of the HTs think that they have powers from some to a large extent in the administrative
matters and more than half, 53.70 %, feel to have control over the financial matters to some
extent to ever more. Besides, 1/4 of the total HTs stated having no role in financial matters.
Similarly, overall opinion of HTs regarding power center of various academic, administrative
and financial matters of the schools showed that 62% of the HTs wanted power center
regarding academic matters to be within school.
Ayaz Muhammad Khan, Munawar S. Mirza. (2012) Opinions and Perceptions of Head Teachers (HTs) towards Devolution in Education in Pakistan, Journal of Elementary Education, Volume-22, Issue-2.
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