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Jon F BaldwinRegistrar
Responding to Challenges and Opportunities in Modern Universities:
What behaviours, attitudes and styles do we need for success?
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Overview
• Strategic Challenges
• Leadership and Management: Critical Attributes
• What qualities and characteristics do we need to succeed?
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• The need for reform• Size matters: concentration of excellence and
playing to strengths• Too many universities? Collaborations and
mergers• Good management and leadership • Need to reduce bureaucracy and burdens on
universities• The student as consumer
Overarching Issues
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Internationalisation
Drivers:• Globalisation
– Increasing transfer of people, services, goods
• Nature of the academic enterprise– Trans-national mapping of disciplines
• Competition– Massive expansion underway– Demand in China & India– Where do our universities rank in international (US)
terms?
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Internationalisation
Features:• Student recruitment & mobility• Convergence at system level (Bologna
implications)• Staff recruitment & mobility• Most highly cited• League tables• Reach of ‘brand’ reputation
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Internationalisation
Modes:• Internationalisation at home
– in-bound recruitment– curriculum reform– teaching/learning process– student expectations for technology-enhanced learning
• Internationalisation abroad– off-shore delivery– More Euro-Asian collaborative taught programmes– European intervention in Anglophone markets in Asia– distance-learning– networks and partnerships
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Funding and Finance
• Funding is a major issue: HE tuition in Europe is funded, per student, 10k less than in the USA
• Continue to develop alternative streams of income• Build a fund-raising/development capacity• Establish an endowment for the next generation
(Increasing university endowments is the route to real funding freedom in the long term)
• Develop further financial aid possibilities• Fees debate• Sustainable Universities (surplus)
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Research and Teaching
• Research excellence: building on strengths• Higher Education and Business: Exchanging
and developing knowledge and skills• Teaching and learning: delivering excellence
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Leadership and Management:Critical Attributes
• Leadership and partnership– Of our staff, of the profession and partnership with
academics• Risk manager / taker• Flexible, non-bureaucratic
– Don’t be part of the compliance culture• Visible, not boardroom only• Strategic
– Not operationally (detailed) focus• Open to new ideas, cultures
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Heads of Administration need to be ...
• Loyal and committed• Intuitive• Stubborn and resolute• Moral code of ethics• Accomplished trapeze artist• Team player• Tact and diplomacy• Honesty and integrity• Jack of all trades
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Quiz time!
What other qualities and characteristics do we need to
succeed?
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Qualities and characteristics
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********* without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without ********* is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson
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Qualities and characteristics
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Living with ineffability and ambiguity
Actually, there is no recipe…and no-one has all the ingredients anyway
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What are we here for?
‘ ……..the advancement of learning and knowledge by teaching and research and the provision of a University education.’
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Where are we going?
Forget the road map and use the compass
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