SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP Enhancing and Sustaining ASIAN...
-
Upload
magdalene-barnett -
Category
Documents
-
view
223 -
download
0
Transcript of SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP Enhancing and Sustaining ASIAN...
SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
Enhancing and Sustaining ASIAN Higher Education Institution Leadership:
AKEPT’s Mission and Strategic Role
SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
Outline
SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
1. Leadership in IHL
2. Challenges &
Opportunities
3. Enhancing and Sustaining IHL
Leadership: the case of Malaysia
4. AKEPT’s Mission and
Strategic Roles
Leadership in IHL?
SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
Leadership is the transformation of expertise and vision into actions that are judged effective by the led (Cowan & Heywood, 2001)
Academic leadership as ‘… a practical and everyday process of supporting, managing, developing and inspiring academic colleagues...’ (Ramsden, 1998:4)
Academic leadership is the act of building a community of scholars to set direction and achieve common purpose through the empowerment of faculty and staff (Gmelch & Wolverton, 2002)
4
GLOBAL SCENARIO OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Challenges
The role of universities
and academics
Curriculum that meets
market needs
R&D&C in a national
innovation systemsTeaching and
learning methods
Widening of access and
mobility
Globalization &
Standardization
Resource utilization
SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
Leadership of AIHL: Challenges
SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
• The quality of students?• Students for the ‘real world’?• Students with the ‘right’ skills?• Students with ‘ASIAN and world-class’ citizen?• The ‘lost’ soul of higher education?• ‘Hungry for success’ phenomena?• Increasing cost and investment in HE?• University Leadership in Crisis? (Sirat, Ahmad & Azman (2012). Higher Education Policy, 25: 511-529).
Leadership of AIHL: Opportunities
SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
• ‘ASIAN Century’- where Asian politics, economy and culture is expected to dominate the 21st Century.
• Highly intellectual, but respect, proud of and preserved ASIAN work culture and traditions.
• Collaboration – leveraging on each other’s strengths through AUPF platform.
Strong and Sustainable Leadership
• A nation’s success can only come, and be sustainable by an intellectual leader with a strong character.
• To strategise and ensure that the leadership will ‘be able to withstand the global storms and lead us through challenges high and low to take us to greater heights of success.’
• Asian IHL leaders need to be more visible in a changing global HE landscape.
SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
National issue:• to transform into
a high income nation
• the need for strong leadership at higher education institutions
Sustainability issue• Charting growth
through a solid trajectory for nurturing streams of innovative, entrepreneurial and global talents for Malaysia
World Class Standard of HE• to ensure that
Malaysia becomes a quality HE hub to nurture talents, and a beehive for research and development by the year 2020
Significance of Enhancing and Sustaining AIHL Leadership: the case of Malaysia
ETPHETPGTP
NH
ESP
Phase 1Foundation
Phase 3
Excellence
Relationship GTP, ETP & HETP
N(H)EM New worldview Civilisational-based Re(de)fining the Global Knowledge Systems
NEM High-income Inclusiveness Sustainability People First Quality of Life
MOE 5 systems aspirations 6 individual aspirations 11 shifts 3 waves
MOE
New
NHESP: THE SEVEN STRATEGIC THRUSTS
SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
THE SEVEN STRATEGIC
THRUSTS
Widening Access and Increasing
Equity Improving Quality of
Teaching and Learning
Intensifying Research and Innovation
Strengthening of Higher Education
Institutions (HEIs)
Intensifying Internationali
- sation
Enculturation of Lifelong Learning
Reinforcing MoHE’s Delivery System
NHESP: 23 Critical Agenda Projects (CAPs)
SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
Governance Leadership Academia Teaching &
Learning R & D Internationalisation
Graduate Employabil
ityPrivate
HEIs APEX MyBrain 15 Lifelong Learning
Academic Audit
PTPTN (Accessibilit
y & Sustainabilit
y
Human Capital
Development Fund
MOHE Delivery System
Holistic Student
Development
Polytechnic Transforma-
tion
Academia-Industry
PTPTN (Accessibility & Sustainability
Human Capital Development
Fund
MOHE Delivery System
Holistic Student
Development
Polytechnic Transforma
-tion
Academia-Industry
The new robust 2nd Phase National Higher Education Plan focuses on:
SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
1 •Strengthening efforts in producing human capital
2 •Enriching creativity and innovation in HE
3 •Creating a conducive higher education ecosystem
4 •Benefitting globalization
5 •Transforming leadership
14
Institution Number Student Staff
Public University
20 523,020 29,713
Private University & Colleges
33(9)
425
407,296 22,068
Polytechnic 30 92,148 7,306
Community College
80 22,380 2,750
Total 588 1,044,844 61,837
Malaysian HEI’s Students & Academic Staff, 2013
SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
Higher Education Leadership Academy (AKEPT)
SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
• Established in January 2008• An organization under the Ministry of
Education, Malaysia• Is in line with the launching of National Higher
Education Strategic Plan (NHESP) - to transform higher education in Malaysia, especially in the area of human capital development.
AKEPT’s Vision
To be acknowledged as the global benchmark and referral centre for Higher
Education Leadership, Learning and Teaching and Research and Innovation.
SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
AKEPT’s Missions1) To align with the Ministry’s transformational agenda
for higher education to ensure that higher education institutions are globally competitive.
2) To be recognized as the premier referral centre for research and innovation, teaching and learning, and leadership competencies for higher education.
3) To facilitate Higher Education Institutions in making Ministry’s transformation agenda a success.
SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
AKEPT’s Objectives1) To strengthen the governance and organization of higher
education institutions through the provision of training, advisory, and coaching programs designed for senior and middle management to develop effective and strategic leadership talent.
2) To generate a culture of creative and innovative solutions to the critical issues on leadership in higher education through effective research.
3) To provide innovation in crafting learning and teaching strategies to improve the quality of learning among students.
4) To brand AKEPT through regional and international leadership institutions
SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
1) To pursue the Leadership Critical Agenda in achieving the desired goal of NHESP.
2) To provide relevant and pragmatic training programs, advice and facilitation to higher education institutions.
3) To promote and facilitate a culture of research and publication on issues and challenges in higher education.
4) To put in place a structured framework and provide advices on succession planning for higher education institutions.
5) To strengthen leadership in learning and teaching in HEIs.6) To inculcate leadership skills among student leaders to become
future leaders. 7) To widen and encourage international collaboration.
SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
AKEPT’s Strategic Roles
AKEPT’s Strategic Action Plan
To be acknowledged as the global benchmark and referral
centre for Higher Education Leadership, Learning and Teaching and Research and Innovation
PR
OG
RA
MM
ES
LEA
DER
SH
IP
CO
RPO
RATE
SO
CIA
L R
ESPO
NSIB
ILIT
Y
CO
LLA
BO
RATIO
N
INTER
NATIO
NA
LIZ
ATIO
N
TALE
NT P
OO
L
PU
BLI
CATIO
N
GO
VER
NA
NC
E
BR
AN
DIN
G
NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION STRATEGIC PLAN
SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
1) Succession planning and talent management
2) Leadership training for top and middle management in higher education institutions
3) Leadership training for Young Lecturers
4) Leadership training for Master Trainers in learning & teaching
5) Development of training modules in learning & teaching
6) Training in research, innovation and commercialization
7) Training in research and publication
8) Seminar in academia leadership, learning and teaching as well as research and innovation
AKEPT’s Strategic Programmes
SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
AKEPT’s Leadership ModelGlobal
Strategic
Foundation
Research Teaching Services
SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
• Empowered HEI Leaders
• Centre for Leadership Training
• Centre for Leadership in Learning and Teaching
• Centre for
Leadership in Research and Innovation
• Involvement of; - HEI Top Management - Administrators - Lecturers - Young
Lecturers - Student
Leaders• Training Modules• Profiling• Succession Plan• Publications• Research• Talent Pool
AKEPT’s Centre OutcomesOutputs
AKEPT’s Programme Output/Outcome
SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
ww.lmcuk.com/.../3183563_high.jpg www.sipco.com.my/blue_ocean_01.gif
BLUE OCEAN RED OCEAN
Shift #1: Have the courage to take the lead!