Academic Paper from the year 2024 in the subject Pedagogy - School System, Educational and School Politics, , course: Educational Management and Policy, language: English, abstract: Policies are implemented by governments and other organisations in the form of laws, regulations, procedures, administrative actions, incentives, and voluntary activities. Policy essentially directs behaviours towards those that are most likely to produce the intended result. Policies are rules, principles, guidelines, or frameworks that an organisation adopts or designs to achieve long-term goals. Policy formulation is a step in the process of making public policies in which governments and other policy players seek and answer questions about how societies can deal with various types of challenges and conditions that affect citizens and organisations in their pursuit of their objectives. Whatever solutions arise from formulation activity serve as the foundation for what, ultimately implemented, becomes public policy. Educational policy is concerned with the formation of a decision, its implementation, and evaluation. Policies are written or unwritten declarations that guide managers' present and future thinking, projects, actions, and decisions. They are written when there are documents available for reference and are unwritten when they are issued in the form of pronouncements, which are policy statements made by people in positions of power or authority. Stakeholders in policymaking are individuals who care about or are somehow influenced by the policy; they also include those active in policy creation. They are the ones who are interested about the advancement and well-being of the educational sector. Policy stakeholders include public interest groups, business associations, trade unions, academics, media, international non-governmental organisations, professional governmental policy analysts, commissions, committees and task forces, research councils/scientists and so on. Public policies are of different types, including: regulatory, industrial, redistrutive, constituent policies and so on. This book gives more on the fuctions of public policies, implemention and evaluation of public policies and others.