Activities
The Institute will be interdisciplinary, reflecting the fact that the governance, leadership and management of higher education and VET institutions require a range of skills from several specialist areas.
The Institute will act as an overarching umbrella for a number of activities.
Consistent with the Institute’s key objectives, it will provide a range of award and non-award courses in leadership and management for higher education and VET managers and members of governing councils. It will provide education and training in strategic management and policy analysis, including interpretation of the local, national and global environment. It will also undertake and promote research and debate on questions of leadership and management in higher education and VET. To ensure that its focus is a national one, the Institute will offer courses and events in several locations and engage with collaborating institutions to offer some of its courses. The Institute will:
- offer modularised award courses in the leadership and management of higher education and VET institutions, with exit points at Certificate, Diploma and Masters level;
- offer short intensive courses for specific groups, such as middle level and senior academic managers, to provide them with the range of skills required to perform their new roles or to prepare them for more senior roles where they have been identified or identified themselves as future leaders. Courses will also be conducted to provide continuing professional development for higher education and VET professional managers;
- conduct research on the practice of leadership and management and on emerging issues which impact upon good leadership, management and governance;
- offer a regular series of conferences and seminars to discuss new and emerging policy issues will have an impact on the leadership, management and governance of higher education and VET institutions. These will include major national policy changes, international comparisons and emerging issues, and new developments in leadership and management practice; and
- provide a consulting service to institutions and individuals based on its expertise in understanding both the management and policy issues affecting institutions. It will also offer executive coaching expertise through a selected group of experienced associates.