National Institute of Education Diploma in School Management 2025

National Institute of Education Diploma in School Management 2025

Available Vacancies:

Calling Applications for Diploma in School Management (Intake 2025) Conducted by the National Institute of Education (NIE)

Diploma in School Management (Intake 2025)

Duration: 12 Months (Weekends)

Medium: Sinhala / Tamil

Course Fee: Rs.50,000/=

Organization: National Institute of Education

Target Group

The course will provide training in Education management for the following categories of professional staff.

Sri Lanka Administrative Service (SLEAS)
Sri Lanka Principal’s Service (SLPS)
Sri Lanka Teacher Educator’s Service (SLTES)
Performing the role of a principal in any school

Objectives

The objective of the DSM course is to provide the educational with management skills, analytical skills and soft skills for managing the schools.

The qualification holder should be able to achieve the below mentioned aims of the DSM course.

To face current challenges effectively
To support for the development of educational managerial competencies needed to develop quality school leadership with in the school system.
To give knowledge skills and understanding about the managerial functions that should be performed.
To guide for the way of working as a creative school manager in solving problems by identifying the problems existed at schools using the available resources.
To keep internal and external relationships for the development of school functions effectively.
To give knowledge for performing administrative functions in related to administrative role.

Eligibility

The National Diploma in teaching or the Trained Teachers’ certificate and
A minimum of four year teaching experience on which one year is in a post involving supervisory or administrative duties.

The course will be advertised in the press
The applicants have to sit for a paper on Education Management.
According to the scores decided by the authority applicants should have to face an interview.
Selected applicants also have to be recommended by the heads of their institutes.

Programme Structure

This course is designed to enhance specialized knowledge and skills in managing schools. The duration of the course is of 12 month period which includes 48 days -2 day contact sessions to be held twice a month on weekends. The course content has been reduced to 10 paramount areas so that the areas can be provided very practical aspects to increase the managerial competencies of participants. Previously 2 days had been allocated for one theme, yet presently 4 days have been allocated for one theme expecting to get a higher competency from each content area.

The teaching methodologies are accomplished by a set of activities based on learning together with face – to face contact sessions comprising the main mode of teaching. This includes andragogy approaches – expository, individualized learning and discovery methods, adopted as and when required.