The Ultimate Education leadership Revised

The Ultimate Education leadership
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Introduction
The aim of this paper is to deliberate on the ultimate leadership style that should be adopted by the education personnel. The paper will also focus on the various models that have been in place to try and come up with an ideal model of what characteristics leaders serving education capacities portray. This is to address a leadership gap that has been identified in institutions of higher learning evident from a number of papers on the dismal performance of universities and other institutions of higher learning in realizing their major goals. The paper will basically focus on adopting a strategy where the appointment of academic personnel with leadership skills will be key in institutions of higher learning rather than on, purely, academic basis.
Education leadership can be described as the roles assumed by managers who run education institutions. This covers a wide range of personnel who are involved in day to day learning of the institutions. This includes; vice chancellors, principals, deans and other departmental heads. The leaders have roles ranging from managing finances, facilitating learning, staff welfare, and curriculum development among others. These responsibilities are thus drawn from a number of disciplines. Thus other skills other than academic prowess only are required if these people shall be able to meet their extra duties. Educational leadership in higher learn…