School of Management, Unit Catalogue 2007/08 |
MN50213 Strategic planning and evaluation in higher education |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Masters |
| Modular: no specific semester |
| Assessment: CW100 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To enable participants: 1 Understand the conceptual basis of strategic planning and evaluation in a higher education context. 2 Analyse the characteristics of planning processes and evaluation processes appropriate for particular organisational and cultural settings. 3 Evaluate the emerging strategic planning agendas for higher education institutions in early part of 21st century. 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. * Emergence of strategic planning and evaluation in higher education: stages in its evolution. * Models of strategic planning and policy formation in higher education: the planning cycle. * Autonomy and accountability: actors and players at various levels in strategic planning process: micro-politics of planning. * Institutional mission, vision, positioning and identity in a diversified system. * Assessment of institutional effectiveness and quality: definitions; conceptual frameworks; performance indicators. * Budgeting process and resource allocation models. * Interface between planning and other organisational processes: operational planning and implementation. * Planning and evaluation as instruments of organisational social change: the limits of planning. * New information technologies and their application for strategic planning, education research planning and administration. |