The Department of Educational Administration is one of the major Departments of NIEPA. The Department is actively engaged in academic and policy-oriented research, programmes of studies and dissemination of knowledge on various dimensions of administration and management, covering all sectors and all levels of education. One of the prime foci of the Department is to build a sound knowledge and data base through its researches, besides creating a strong professional support for educational administrators and researchers on multiple dimensions of educational administration and management. The Department undertakes large scale projects and research studies which have been majorly aligned with the needs of the educational governance and focus of the NEP2020. The department also conducts workshops and capacity Development programmes on various dimensions of educational administration and management for the academic administrators and practitioners involved at various levels of educational administration including academic administrators in the institutions of higher and technical education. Besides other academic activities, two major areas of engagements and contributions of the Department in recent years include creation of a large scale information data base on educational administration in states and UTs in India gathered through a major research project on All India Survey of Educational Administration as well as State level conferences of District and Block Education Officers in different states; and initiation and implementation of the Scheme of Awards for Innovations and Good Practices in Educational Administration. The Department offers courses on educational administration and management and related thematic areas in M.Phil/ Ph.D. Programmes, Master programme in Education and Development; Post Graduate Diploma in Educational Planning and Administration, International Diploma Programme in Educational Planning and Administration; and short term training programmes More...