Browsing by Author "Sharveswara, R."

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    Effectiveness of School Based Management in Empowering the Leadership of Schools
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2019) Vijayabaskar, V.; Sharveswara, R.
    School Based Management (SBM) is aimes at empowering the school leadership to take charge of the management more independently by changing the dynamics of school administration from centrally managed model to more decentralized mechanism of independent schools. The objectives of introducing SBM are many: improving good governance, relevance and quality of education, while ensuring equity and community participation. SBM has been implemented for more than over a decade in Sri Lanka, the outcomes of this program at school level have not yet been brought out adequately by researches. This study attempts to find out the influence of the provisions of SBM on the leadership of school. Descriptive statistical approach is used to investigate the research problem. The research design is structured to evaluate the relationship between effectiveness of SBM as independent variable and empowerment of leadership of principals as dependent variable using the statistical techniques of correlational study. Data was collected by stratified random sampling from the population of principals and members of school boards of 20 schools from Tellippalai Education Division, Jaffna. A questionnaire, focus group interviews, and document study were employed for data collection. The provisions of SBM program have rendered the leadership remarkable degree of freedom for managerial process through participatory management. School selfgovernance facilitated in more than 88% schools and school boards contributed over 62% and government grants aided at 61% to empower the leadership. 25 % of principals view the SBM to be providing excellent facilitation to the overall leadership functions in schools. While 35 % consider it to be moderate and 40 % are of opinion of less than the average level. Almost all principals feel that there is certain level of intervention of central authorities in SBM which affect the impact of SBM in producing the expected benefits in school management. The authority to handle financial and human resources has not been adequately decentralized yet. The school boards are not independent and lack control over the schools. The newly introduced Enhanced Program for School Improvement (EPSI) initiatives must be revised to strengthen the school boards with more authorities to manage resources and involve in administrative decision making.
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    Systemic Challenges Faced by the Administrative Officers of the Higher Educational Institutions in Sri Lanka
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2018) Sharveswara, R.
    There are 552 Administrative officers are placing in the Higher Educational Institutions in Sri Lanka by the University Grants Commission. This is 5.3% of total number of Non-teaching staff in the system. The mentioned Administrative officers are facing lot of challenges by the systemic issues such as recruitment, promotion, transfer, confirmation and other related benefits. The objective of this study is to find out the solutions to overcome the above challenges. The qualitative historical research methodology is used in this study by refer existing University Act, Circulars, Establishment code which are available legal documents in the system and government sectors. Altogether 32 documents were analyzed and compared. The opinion of the individual is not considered into this study as it concentrated only the systemic challenges. There are several issues are identified specially in the recruitment, promotion and confirmation which has to rectify to ensure the standard of the Administrative system of Higher Educational Institution of Sri Lanka. Recruitment criteria is time to time changed. Promotion is also done against available vacancy carders as the new appointment. The proper transfer policy is not adopted. The promoted officer should be in the probationary period for one year. If anyone fails in the Efficiency Bar exam in Middle level category they also able to get the promotion without considering the result of efficiency bar Exam. There are some common salary codes are used for Administrative staff and Nonadministrative staff. There are some systemic differences identified from other equal related all island services. It creates inequality among the same kind of officers to get and enjoy the benefits from their employment. The study has find out there is no proper mechanism or service minutes for the carrier development of Administrative officers of the system. This study emphasizes to develop an all island service in the name of Sri Lankan Higher Educational Administrative Service to ensure the quality of the Administrative system of the Higher Educational Institutions of Sri Lanka.