Accreditation of Governing Boards of Educational Organizations: Goal, Objectives, Implementation Mechanism

DOI

10.2991/iscfec-18.2019.244How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Educational organization; governing board; accreditation of governing board.

Abstract

The paper presents the results of a continuing study of the functioning and development of educational institutions’ governing boards. The authors hereof substantiate a hypothesis that developing and implementing a voluntary, fair, and open mechanism for verifying the governing board’s conformity to the basic principles (the Standard) of conduct will improve the confidence in such boards while optimizing the application of their potential to managing an educational institution. The paper defines the goals and objectives of accreditation as a way to verify the governing board’s conformity to the basic principles of conduct. We have developed and described a mechanism for accreditation of educational institutions’ governing boards for conformity to the basic principles of conduct; as such, we clarify such principles, set forth which bodies are authorized to accredit such governing boards, and present a Governing Board Accreditation Procedure. The governing board accreditation mechanism was tested in 2016–2018 in Moscow’s educational environment. Test results enabled the authors to draft guidelines for the educational institution, its founder, and the governing board’s members; such guidelines help ensure the board’s conformity to the basic principles (Standard) of conduct, thus improving the key stakeholders’ confidence in this board. The research uses the common scientific research methods: systemic and functional approaches; special research methods, such as sociological (document analysis, observation, surveying, polling, experiment, and expert opinion) and statistical methods.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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