El liderazgo y la gestión educativa, en la educación superior.

Abstract

In the research called “Leadership and educational management in higher education”, its main objective was to analyze leadership capacity and educational management as a resource for institutional success in Higher Education, which would help to raise the quality of education in the upper level of the Academic Unit of Education of the Catholic University of Cuenca Azogues, from the province of Cañar in the academic period march 2017 - august 2017. The research was descriptive, cross-sectional, for the data collection was used the survey technique. The sample was of 155 individuals, between managers, professors and students. After the data analysis it was possible to establish that in the Academic Unit of Education of the Catholic University of Cuenca Azogues headquarters, a model of management and innovative leadership is applied by competencies with the purpose of incorporating an added value that provides an attitude formation of change, values and mentality in the students to reach its development.