Integrated Planning

and Decentralization
in Education
JUANITO C. HINGPIS
Presenter
 • Integrated planning is a sustainable approach to planning
that builds relationships, aligns the organization, and
emphasizes preparedness for change.
• Integrated planning isn’t a process—there’s no single way to
do integrated planning in higher education. Rather, it’s a
What is framework that can be used to develop more effective
planning processes.
Integrated • Integrated planning engages all sectors of the academy—
Planning? academic affairs, student affairs, business and finance,
campus planning, IT, communications, development, etc.
Integrated planning involves all stakeholders—faculty,
students, staff, alumni, and external partners—to work
together toward a common vision.
• Integrated planning aligns efforts both vertically (from
mission to on-the-ground operations) and horizontally
(across schools, departments, offices, and processes).
 • Sustainable: With this approach, you build a culture of
planning that is durable and brings focus to institutional
progress and student success.
• Collaborative: Integrated planning engages stakeholders
so that everyone with a stake in the institution is invested
in the success of the institution.
Integrated • Aligned: Integrated planning aligns efforts across the
institution: up, down, and sideways. It links planning to
Planning is: resource allocation and to assessment, so goals and
initiatives have the resources they need to be achieved and
progress can be measured.
• Change-ready: Institutions with integrated planning
processes are poised to respond to a volatile environment.
Are you change-ready?
Integrated
Development
Planning for
Education
 It is about shifts in the location of those who govern, about
transfers of authority from those in one location or level vis-à-vis
education organizations, to those in another level. The location of
authority is expressed in terms of the location of the position or
What is the governing body (for example, the district level).

Decentralize It is often defined in terms of four degrees of transfer of authority:

1. Deconcentration – shift authority for implementation of rules,
d Educational but not for making them

Planning? 2. Delegation – delegated authority for public education from

Secretary of Education to local government units
3. Devolution – implies that something is given back to an
organization from which it had been taken. Transfer of
authority to LGU’s
4. Privatization – the private sector is heavily involved in
developing integrated plan for educational purposes.
  • Shared Governance is a principle which
SHARED recognizes that every unit in the
education bureaucracy has a particular
GOVERNANCE role, task and responsibility inherent in
PRINCIPLE the office and for which it is principally
responsible for outcomes.
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