School of Management, Unit Catalogue 2009/10 |
MN50214: Higher education governance, organisation and management |
 Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Masters |
| Period: | Modular (no specific semester) |
| Assessment:
| CW100 |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description: | Aims & Learning Objectives: To enable participants to: 1. Understand the nature of governance, organisation and management in the higher education sector. 2. Analyse and compare the various forms of governance, organisation and management across nations and between the state and private institutions. 3. Assess the appropriateness of various forms of leadership and organisation in a rapidly changing economic and political environment, and different settings. Content: * Models of national systems and the capacities for institutional change: changing patterns of state-university relationships; autonomy - accountability balance; state planning; funding regimes; charters. * Institutional cultures and models and associated leadership behaviour patterns: the entrepreneurial and adaptive university. * Environmental trends and agendas for institutional change: ramifications for institutional policy and development. * Models of institutional governance in the light of different cultural settings, and in relation to environmental trends and agendas for institutional change: governing bodies; rectorates/executives; roles of deans, professional staffs and the administration. * Interface with stakeholders: definition; types and dynamics of university- stakeholder relationships; corporate providers; dynamics of institutional consortia. * Centralisation and devolution: factors, principles; implications for central and faculty management information and monitoring. * Changing patterns in academic structures. * Budgetary process and resource allocation models. * Corporate management of functional areas of university administration, including finance and resources, extended relations and institutional advancement, resource, information. * University as a learning organisation. * New information technologies and their application for strategic planning, education research planning and administration. |