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Themes
of the Presentation
- The changing higher education environment
- The qualities needed in higher education
- Autonomy its implications and its
challenges
- Links between universities and society
Qualities
Required of University Management
- Working in an integrated fashion
- Showing flexibility
- Being pro-active
The
Framework and Approach
- Council - strategic apporval
- Delegated authority to senior offecers
- Open and participatory styles of
management
- Good communications
- Fewer committees; more emphasis on
individuals and teams
- Interdisciplinary approaches
- Ways of re-ordering priorities quickly
- Excellent staff training and development
policies
- Clear priorities for action within
agreed times scales
Organisational
and Management Change
- Councils/Boards are more strategic
- Management is more professional
- Bureaucracy is being reduced and
capability increased
- Structural change is designed to
bring about greater responsiveness and flexibility
The
new civic university
The new civic university can be defined
as:
- an international institution within
a city/regional home
- engaged with developing the Knowledge
Economy
- delivering enterprise, culture, public
health
- reising aspirationa among young people
- Enterprise activities
- The supply of trained manpower
- Research
- Business Support
- Incubation and enterprise programmes
- Health
- Delivering a quality work force
- Research
- Clinical activity
- Health impovement
- Culture
- Libraries, theatres, galleries
- Creative industries and audiences
Institutional Objectives
- Maintaining academic excellence
- Leadership role within HE
- Engagement of stakeholders
- Local good neighbourliness
Windening
participation strategy aim:
To raise
awareness of and aspirations to higher education, encouraging young
and mature entrants from lower-socio-economic groups to progress
into higher education
Still
to resolve
- The new mission
- No holistic approach
- Difficulty of engaging
staff: reward system
- Competing products in the market
place
- Lack of broad coherence
- No central data base/cross selling
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