The school management is regarded as one of the most important functions in the administrative work of the educational institutions which ensures for the most efficient materialization of its objectives. The task of school management is to continually seek for innovative methods in order to increase the quality of the daily educational work. The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are a means of modernizing not only the educational process but the completion of administrative tasks as well. The schools' managers in Secondary Education increasingly use ICT as facilitators in the handling of their administrative obligations, which is consistent with the requirements of a modern "digital" reality. This study deals with the research of the managers' digital profile and records their attitudes and perceptions regarding the integration and use of ICT in the administrative process of a school organization, focusing on the managers' familiarization in the implementation of ICT and the research of their specific training needs. A mixed methodological research approach was adopted (a quantitative and a qualitative one), using as methodological data collection tools the structured questionnaire and the semi - structured interview respectively. The current study surveyed a random sample of 107 High School principals during the school year of 2014-2015 for the quantitative part and a purposive sample of 9 principals for the qualitative part of the research. The findings of the research reveal that managers as ardent supporters of the use of ICT in the organization and administration of their schools and they create a rich digital profile, while they definitely recognize the importance of ICT for the improvement of the administrative process in schools. Although the respondents of the research are very familiar with the use of ICT, nonetheless this does not mean that there are no educational training needs which must be taken seriously into consideration by the policy makers of the training programs.Keywords: Information and Communication Technologies, ICT in educational administration, principals' digital profile, training programs 1 INTRODUCTIONThe pagkosmiopoimeni social reality dominated by the technological explosion, also affects the education that must be attuned to the new digital reality. The adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) is an essential element of the culture of the modern world, creating new requirements and challenges especially in the educational sector, provided new ways of learning, information, communication and working conditions [1]. More and more countries take advantage of the new Technologies (NF) in the administration of their educational units, contributing to more effective and more efficient processing and organizing administrative information and gradually lead to the modernisation and improvement of the administrative process. ICT constitute the mainstay of society contributing to alertness and simplify administrative functions and reform of the communication in educational community [2] making it the "new school" competitive in order to respond to the ' callings ' coils in the European area. The concept of ICT incorporates methods, tools and applications, but which would not have any meaning if not simatodotoyntan from the manpower required to adopt modern information systems. The arranger of this accession process of NF in pedagogic and administrative procedure assumes the Director of the school, who by urging the educational and administrative staff will be able to offer "digital culture", in order to contribute to the effectiveness of the educational administration and flexible handling of administrative tasks.
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