Following the implementation of educational reform, school leadership has become very important.
School principals have become managers and it was necessary a qualification process for them. The purpose of
this study was to establish training needs and training school managers. The research instrument was a
questionnaire applied to a number of 38 school managers of the eight regions of Romania.
Analyzing data from the questionnaires respondents received, we found the following:
• there is a clear idea of managerial tasks
• school management issues are not fully known by the respondents.
School education directors reported several problems such as:
• Requiring high problems that have not been trained
• The need for skills in areas such as accounting, administration, legal, information technology
• Making teaching standard together with managerial activity
A percentage of 62.70% of executives felt they were not sufficiently prepared for effective business management.