General description

The course consists of two units: Unit 1: Higher Education Governance and Policy and Unit 2: Higher Education Management

Learning outcomes

Unit 1: aims at providing students with an understanding of system-level governance of higher education and the relationship between governance models and change within higher education institutions. It will put special emphasis on providing an understanding of the consequences of attempts by governmental agencies and institutional leaders, to promote or enable change. As an important element in this, students will also learn what role quality plays in the current governance shifts that take place with respect to higher education.
Unit 2: aims at providing the students with a theoretical foundation and practical insights in higher education management and leadership models.

Contents

Unit 1: includes Competing models of governance, governance components, such as policy and management, examination of processes of change in higher education institutions, with an emphasis on changes in intra-institutional governance structures Discussion of national policies on higher education quality issues and their effects at the institutional level. There will be opportunities for the students to present and reflect on their own experiences in the areas covered by Unit 1.
Unit 2: focuses on higher education management and leadership models in relation to the following areas: Institutional planning, budgeting and financial management, evaluation and quality management, legal issues with respect to higher education administration, the application of higher education research to the practical problems of higher education administration. Topics to be included are amongst others: the relationship between state, market and the academic profession, intellectual property rights, the evaluation of educational programmes, research and institutions, models of public financing and institutional allocation, disciplinary and administrative cultures and leadership. Unit 2 will be organized around a case-exercise.

Teaching methods

Teaching method	Contact	Online
Lectures	40 h	0 h
Seminar	8 h	0 h

Teaching language

English

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Recommended year of study

2. year spring

Study materials

All students have to study a compendium consisting of the core literature for the two units (about 900 pages in total).

Belongs to following study modules