The recent spate of insecurity in schools calls for a more proactive, preventive and pre-emptive approach globally.

This course equips school owners and administrators with the knowledge to build security consciousness in students and teachers, for themselves and for their immediate environment.

Best practices in school security management are covered succinctly.

The need for safety has never been greater in our nation’s history. Building collapses, bomb explosions, kidnapping and banditry have made calls for safety and risk management louder in educational institutions than ever before.

This course focuses on the practical application of safety methodologies, ergonomics and human factors, and safety and risk management techniques.

It develops participants’ skills to undertake safety studies and to manage safety and risk to the best national and international standards.

Cybersecurity awareness training teaches participants how students and teachers can protect themselves from cyber-attacks.

Participants learn about phishing scams, malware, ransomware and other computer threats. This knowledge is necessary for schools that want to keep students and teachers safe.

Every standard-compliant school is expected to have a robust health management system that deals with health appraisals, control of communicable diseases, record keeping and supervision of the health of school children and personnel.

Participants receive practical tips on maintaining effective health management in their schools, and on how students and teachers can protect their overall well-being in the school environment.

Many schools suffer setbacks not because of low patronage but because of poor financial management.

Financial management is the key to efficient handling of finances in educational institutions. It is not limited to budget management: it also covers vendor bill management and asset management. In a single sentence, it is responsible for the overall financial health of the organization.

School owners and administrators are taken through the details of financial management to avoid loss, indebtedness, wastage and leakages.

The purpose of record keeping is to ensure accurate and up-to-date records of students’ achievements and growth, so that the school and parents can easily access information on a child’s school activities at any time.

This matters because records affect every other part of school life, including planning, budgeting, staffing, facilities and discipline. School records also preserve the customs and traditions that guide teachers and school heads from time to time.

In this course, participants look at 50 school records that a standard-compliant school is expected to keep.

Many school owners start a school and operate it for years without reading the Education Law of the country even once.

Education law refers to the statutes, regulations, cases and policies governing education and the resolution of disputes in educational institutions.

In this course, a Ph.D holder in Law who is also a Fellow Chartered School Administrator enlightens participants on the extant laws relating to educational practice within the country’s constitutional framework.

Participants are also guided on legal issues around writing a will and business succession documents.

School information management is how you organize school operations and tasks effectively. It covers how you manage information about students, teachers, classes, courses and every other structural element of your school, including core administrative tasks and procedures such as student admission and class creation and distribution.

All of this is covered in a way that keeps information complete and easy to retrieve, giving you total control of your school’s management right at your fingertips.

Shishi High School in Chengdu, China, is often cited as the oldest school in the world, in existence since 143 B.C. and still operating today. That is the power of effective policy formulation in schools.

Mastering policy formulation helps a school owner and administrator achieve longevity, continuity and sustainability for the school business for years to come.

Participants are taken through the technical know-how of policy formulation in schools, with practical templates and examples.

School owners and administrators are introduced to the responsibilities of human resources management across the employee life cycle: recruiting, hiring, onboarding, training and firing employees, and administering employee benefits.

They are also taught the basic duties of HR, which include talent management, compensation and employee benefits, training and development, compliance and workplace safety.

It is essential knowledge for every school owner and administrator who wants to provide the organizational structure that keeps a business sustainable.

Conflict management is about prevention. Participants learn basic prevention skills such as ground-rule setting, active listening, issue identification, brainstorming and evaluation of options.

They are introduced to proven conflict management styles: accommodating, avoiding, compromising, collaborating and competing.

The course ends with practical strategies every school owner and administrator can use to manage conflict in the school: support, appeasement, autonomy, dominance, benevolence, competition and cooperation.

It is a rich course that promotes peaceful coexistence among all the stakeholders in the school system.

An excellent relationship with the community where the school is situated is vital to the success of the school business. School–community relationship describes the nature of the association between a school and its community: an interactive relationship between the two.

Participants learn how to overcome the challenges of perception, pedagogy and policy that often face effective school–community relations, and receive suggestions for enhancing those relationships across the forms of involvement presented.

Maintaining and retaining customers is vital to any business.

School owners are shown practical ways of reaching potential customers, acquiring them, converting them, retaining them and earning their loyalty.

Excellent customer relationships are built through strategic means such as user adoption, security, functionality, automation and data quality.

Finally, participants are taught a dozen C’s of customer relationship management that will change your school’s marketing drive for good.

This course covers how a school plans, delivers and reviews its curriculum, so that what is taught meets the standard expected of a compliant school.

Instructional materials are a channel between the teacher and the students in delivering instruction. They also motivate the teaching and learning process, win the attention of students and ease boredom.

Unfortunately, many teachers do not deploy instructional materials effectively and professionally in the classroom.

In this course, participants are exposed to the practical procurement, deployment, improvisation and use of instructional materials in the school.

No marketing style or branding technique will count for much if students are not performing well academically. The first marketing drive of any school is the superlative academic performance of its students.

That is why a wise school owner and administrator concentrates a large portion of energy, effort and excitement on students’ academic performance.

In this course, seven (7) practical approaches to managing students’ academic performance are discussed, and participants are taught how to apply them.

Digital education is the innovative incorporation of modern technology and digital tools to support the progress of teaching and learning in schools. It is also known as Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), digital learning or e-learning.

It is common knowledge that any school that refuses to evolve digitally in this 21st century will soon be left behind on the lower rungs of the educational ladder.

In this course, participants are taught ten (10) practical steps to take to digitize a school system.

“Any fool can produce a soap; it takes a wise man to market it” is a timeless adage.

After investing so much in your school’s human and non-human resources, you must be able to brand and market it in a way that attracts new customers and retains the old ones. Unfortunately, many school owners fail in this regard.

Branding is the process of presenting your school’s character and personality in every way you communicate, from your building colour, signpost and newsletters to the banner in your front hallway. It is the best way to put a particular image in people’s minds when they think about your school.

Participants are exposed to the critical components of brand management in schools, with emphasis on the company, the customer and the competitor.

In an over-competitive, overcrowded private school system, any school owner who lacks capacity in this area does so at his or her peril. Your marketing analytics and drive cannot remain the same after this course.

Whatever knowledge a school owner and administrator may acquire, whatever credentials they may possess and whatever exposure they may get, there must always be students in the classroom. That is the only way the business continues to thrive.

In this course, 10 effective strategies for boosting student enrollment are discussed with relevant case studies.

School business, like all businesses, is about projects: building, renovation, expansion, beautification, procurement and curriculum planning projects, among others.

Many school owners and administrators get bogged down in projects that fail to deliver as projected, leading to frustration and depression in many cases.

Participants are taken through the different types of project management in a school setting, and learn how to manage projects without stress, from initiation, planning, allocation and execution to tracking and closure.

Infrastructure makes learning engaging and motivates students to attend class, which boosts attendance and enthusiasm for academics. Schools must have good infrastructure to raise student achievement and improve the educational environment.

How to manage facilities such as the laboratory, library, furniture, conveniences for staff and students, instructional materials and studio is the main subject of this course.

No matter how rich the content of a school may be, it is the infrastructure that attracts the right customers. That is why this course is a must for every school owner and administrator.