Administration, competencies and management in educational institutions in Colombia

Abstract

It is shown in this article, the importance of administration and management for the organization of all human activities and processes, emphasizing those tasks related to education and training. In this sense, it is defined management as that ability to achieve organizational objectives from the allocation of: resources, budgets, human talent in certain times. All this suggests the need to plan, coordinate, direct, control and evaluate. However, these administrative functions must be contextualized precisely in reason of the nature of the educational institutions created and instituted for the provision of a social service such as education, for this reason, some suggestions and guidelines for action.