Provincial Education Administration
4.1 Provincial Ministries of Education
4.2 Provincial Departments of Education
4.3 Zonal Education Offices
4.4 Divisional Education Offices
4.1 Provincial Ministries of Education
Under the Provincial Ministry of Education and its Secretary, the Provincial Department of Education is in charge of the provincial education administrative system.
4.2 The Provincial Department of Education:
The Provincial Department of Education, headed by the Provincial Director of Education, is responsible for the management and administration of all education programmes of the province. He has duel responsibilities both to the MOE and the Provincial Ministry of Education. There are eight Provincial Departments of Education in the nine provinces of the country, as Northern and Eastern provinces have been amalgamated.
Financial resources are allocated to each Provincial Department of Education from the Provincial Council through its Minister of Education. The main functions of the Department include planning and budgeting of education in the province; general administration of zonal and divisional offices; education development of schools through zonal and divisional offices. The following diagram shows the organizational structure of a Provincial Department of Education:
Figure 9 : Structure of a Provincial Department of Education.
4.3 Zonal Education Office:
The Zonal Education Office, headed by a Zonal Director, is responsible for administrative work of the schools and teachers in the Zone as well as quality improvement of teaching and learning in schools. For quality improvement in education the Zonal office has subject specialists in different subject areas who are responsible for supervision and improvement of quality of teaching.
Figure 10: Structure of a Zonal Education Office.
4.4 Divisional Education Office:
The Divisional Education Office is headed by a Divisional Director and the staff consists of three other assistant directors and In-service Advisors. The functions of the Divisional Office are: general supervision of schools, collecting information and data from schools, distribution of text books and other equipment and materials to schools and assisting school supervision.
In-Service Advisors (ISA):
In 2002 there were 2400 In-Service Advisors for different subject areas, attached to Divisional Education Offices. Their role is to train teachers to teach the new curricula introduced by the NIE, through seminars and to observe the teaching learning process in classrooms, and advise the teachers on how to improve their teaching.
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