Educational Resource Planning - A Framework for Educational Institutions

It is proved that universities form one of the oldest established institutions and despite frequent changes in function, they retain policies of their medieval period. These legendary universities are similar to today´s organizations in management perspective. Both universities and business organizations face common problems of co-ordinating resources, controlling cost, and facilitating enterprise among staff, etc., There is a common solution to build a standard structure and use the information technology (IT) tools like enterprise resource planning (ERP). In India, there are universities that lay down norms and/ regulations and communicate to its affiliated institutions, be it technical or non-technical, where each institution can setup those norms as basis and implement them. This paper aims to identify important educational resources in a planned organized manner and also device plan, policy and procedure for efficient & effective delivery. With this end in view, the paper studies the structure of an organization, different activities at different levels of organization.