Survival course set to brace schools against global crisis

(The Philippine Star) Updated November 17, 2008 12:00 AM
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While faced with the grim prospect of declining enrolment and rising operating costs, the country’s schools can still survive and even thrive despite this global crisis.

Such is the objective of the Leadership Strategies for School Managers (LESSM) 2008, a two-day training course slated at the Ateneo Institute of Social Order in Quezon City on Dec. 5 to 6 to help the education sector ride the tide of the world’s surging financial tsunami.

“LESSM 2008 will train school owners, administrators, principals and emerging leaders in turning their respective educational institutions into a flourishing business even in the midst of this fiscal holocaust,” said Rosanna Llenado, president of Ahead Professional Network (AheadPro), the event organizer.

“AheadPro will bring into LESSM a powerhouse of education management and finance experts, including those from the country’s top institutions such as the University of the Philippines (UP), Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), De La Salle University (DLSU), and Asian Institution of Management (AIM), among others,” Llenado pointed out.

“Among them (LESSM speakers) are Dean Roberto Borromeo of DLSU’s College of Education, executive director Prof. Liza Carascal of the UP Open University Foundation, education law expert Atty. Maritonie Renee Resurreccion, Dr. Cornelia Soto, Ph.D., of ADMU’s Department of Education, and consultant Lilia Vengco, M.A., of DLSU System,” Llenado announced.

With the theme School Managers Surviving the Global Crisis, LESSM’s lecture series will fully discuss topics on achieving financial stability in difficult times, strategic resource management in schools, promoting excellent instruction on a tight budget, financial implications of legal problems, meeting accreditation standards within a budget, leadership and its cost, and a bonus session on recreating your professional image for less.

More information on the LESSM can be obtained from AheadPro (tel. 9277770, 0917-5009099, or log-on to www.educ18.net, or
www.lessm.aheadpro.com.