PROGRAMME on INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT in HIGHER EDUCATION July 2004
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PROGRAMME ON INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION July 2004 PROGRAMME ON INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION THE 2004 GENERAL CONFERENCE IN CITATIONS Never before in human history have communities As the new millennium gets everywhere, and millions upon millions of Education is a progressive underway, higher education finds individuals everywhere, attached such importance discovery of our own ignorance. itself facing increasingly intense and value to education, (…) We realize we need a Will Durant questions about “accountability.” ‘learning world’, to match the information society. What is it for which higher And people are crying out for a truly learning education should be accountable world. One where each and every person has the and to whom? Why is this such an opportunity to fulfill his or her potential. No one Personally I’m always issue now? and I mean, quite literally, not one single person, ready to learn, although Frank Newman • 2003 should feel they are sentenced to lifelong exile from I do not always like being Frank Newman was Director of the the world of learning. It is a matter of human taught. Futures Project at Brown University dignity. It is a matter of democracy. Sir Winston Churchill and will be remembered as a dynamic Federico Mayor • 1998 force for change in higher education, a reflective practitioner,and a stimulating We have entered an age in which speaker. He took a leading role in education is not just a luxury permitting several IMHE events. He will be sorely If you think education is some men an advantage over others. It missed by the international higher expensive, try ignorance! has become a necessity without which a education community. Andy McIntyre person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society… We have truly entered the century of the educated man. (…) our universities do have an Lyndon B Johnson • 1963 Education is the best important future. It is a future, provision for old age. however,that depends on their ability Aristotle to make a range of fundamental changes to the way they go about their teaching and research activities, Tomorrow’s illiterate will The whole purpose of not be the man who can’t as well as to the way they manage education is to turn mirrors and present themselves. read, he will be the man We believe, that is, you and into windows. who has not learned how IMHE, Peter Coaldrake, I, that education is not an Sydney J. Harris to learn. Laurence Stedman • 1998 expense. We believe it is an Herbert Gerjouy investment. Lyndon B. Johnson • 1968 Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Introduction Malcolm Forbes New funding and governance mechanisms Do not plead for autonomy unless you intend to exploit it to make your university a much better educational University governing bodies (…) national systems are institution. seem to be gaining in blunt instruments for reform. IMHE Journal, Burton Clark significance as massification The state or other main • 2001 and funding changes increase The university’s characteristic sponsors cannot do the job of pressure on university state may be summarized by reform for the universities. New approaches to finances, and identities. the words of the lady who Only universities themselves governance in OECD IMHE Journal, said, “I have enough money to can take the essential actions. countries combine the Chris Duke • 2001 last me the rest of my life, IMHE Journal, authority of the State unless I buy something”. Burton Clark • 2001 and the power of Hanna Holborn Gray markets in new ways. • 1986 OECD, EPA • 2003 Universities are much more Access and equity, impact on the management than a business. They have of the institution unique genetic features, and they have developmental However, access to higher education should remain open to Whilst the recruitment of women trajectories projected by their those successfully completing secondary school, or its to higher education has improved own generic trends and societal equivalent, or presenting entry qualifications, as far as in many countries, they still commitments. And proactive possible, at any age and without any discrimination. achieve a lower proportion of universities shape their environ- As a consequence, the rapid and wide-reaching demand for academic, and particular senior ments as much as they are higher education requires, where appropriate, all policies posts. shaped by them. Using common concerning access to higher education to give priority in the IMHE, Maurice Kogan, terms, they are self-initiating, future to the approach based on the merit of the individual Ingrid Moses, Elaine El-Khawas self-steering, self-regulating, (…) • 1994 self-reliant, progressive. World declaration on higher education for IMHE Journal, the twenty first century: vision and action • UNESCO Burton Clark • 2001 If Chrysler had an assembly line in which the New missions and strategies for institutions same number of cars got through as kids do in our school system, people would be scandalized. Frank J. Macchiarola • 1983 (…) in the vast majority of cases universities are the main proximity knowledge provider. Here the issue is no longer one of being a world leader, even one of excellence in the traditional meaning of academic excellence; it is Equality is not when a female one of relevance (addressing the problems of SMEs and focusing on the main Einstein gets promoted to assistant sectors in which they specialise) and of professionalism (being good enough professor: Equality is when a female to tap and adapt/tailor the relevant knowledge). schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a IMHE Journal, Philippe Larédo • 2003 male schlemiel. Ewald B. Nyquist • 1975 New knowledge, research and knowledge creation Concentrations of research activity Both the quantitative or demographic and Research has increasingly been the within universities will provide the the qualitative aspects of academic formative indicator of higher education, most competitive response to the staffing policy and practice have been arguably playing a critical role in policies. However there is a danger unduly neglected and need attention by establishing a new fault-line across HEIs that university responses could focus policy makers at both the systems and the and the educational marketplace. As too much on maximising research institutional levels, and by senior competition becomes one of the major performance and remove highly practitioners. forces impacting on higher education, active researchers and groups from IMHE, Maurice Kogan, Ingrid Moses, research and research capacity now forms the teaching arena altogether. Elaine El-Khawas • 1994 an essential component of this environment. IMHE Journal, IMHE Journal, John Kleeman • 2003 Ellen Hazelkorn • 2003 The first and foremost difficulty in constructing a model for teacher evaluation in higher education is the Conclusions? lack of interest in it. “Only what is transient IMHE Journal, Human resources issues Each success only lasts.”And no one in his right Karen Chan • 2001 buys an admission mind will deny, when looking ticket to a more back over these two and half Effective staff development difficult problem. decades, that higher education is vital to achieving the Henry Kissinger is certainly on the move. (…) most academics choose this University’s objectives. • 1979 IMHE Journal, Guy Neaves profession because they prefer analysis to IMHE Journal, • 1996 action and discussion to decisions. This George Gordon • 2001 puts a special obligation on the minority of academics who do have management If the key words of this era are to be competition, talent. They must step forward and take responsiveness and utility, then our institutions need on the leadership functions. Otherwise, The dissatisfaction, reported widely and to address the extent to which their organizations universities will have to be run by in many countries of academic staff not and their culture reflects them. We are going to managers without academic motivation, only with remuneration and conditions of need an injection of corporate flair and corporate which is unsatisfactory. work but also with their roles, is a imagination, concepts which have often been the IMHE Journal, matter requiring attention by national subject of suspicion in the past. We are going to Sir John Daniel • 2003 authorities. have to learn to appreciate the importance of public IMHE, Maurice Kogan, Ingrid Moses, service and to be able to manage such new Elaine El-Khawas • 1994 activities effectively (…) IMHE Journal, Michael Shattock • 1997 > Information and registration www.oecd.org/edu/imhegeneralconference2004 IMHE NEWS PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST The IMHE welcomes the following new members : > Medical University of Graz - Austria Knowledge management > Bifröst School of Business - Iceland Innovation in the > Kairin Juku School - Japan Knowledge Economy: > National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation Implications for (NIAD-UE) - Japan Education and > Law University of Lithuania - Lithuania Learning. > Istambul Bilgi University - Turkey OECD Publications 2004, ISBN 9264105603 I The strategic management seminar for institutional leaders, jointly organised Today’s “knowledge economies” are by IMHE and EUA, was hosted by the University College Cork-UCC, from 16 seeing the emergence of new paradigms to 21 April. Participants for innovation and the advancement of and members of the knowledge in relation to economic academic team came activities.This report explores some key from 14 different