Jon F Baldwin Registrar Responding to Challenges and Opportunities in Modern Universities: What behaviours, attitudes and styles do we need for success?

Jon F BaldwinRegistrar

Responding to Challenges and Opportunities in Modern Universities:

What behaviours, attitudes and styles do we need for success?

© University of Warwick, 2008

Overview

• Strategic Challenges

• Leadership and Management: Critical Attributes

• What qualities and characteristics do we need to succeed?


• The need for reform• Size matters: concentration of excellence and

playing to strengths• Too many universities? Collaborations and

mergers• Good management and leadership • Need to reduce bureaucracy and burdens on

universities• The student as consumer

Overarching Issues


Internationalisation

Drivers:• Globalisation

– Increasing transfer of people, services, goods

• Nature of the academic enterprise– Trans-national mapping of disciplines

• Competition– Massive expansion underway– Demand in China & India– Where do our universities rank in international (US)

terms?



Features:• Student recruitment & mobility• Convergence at system level (Bologna

implications)• Staff recruitment & mobility• Most highly cited• League tables• Reach of ‘brand’ reputation



Modes:• Internationalisation at home

– in-bound recruitment– curriculum reform– teaching/learning process– student expectations for technology-enhanced learning

• Internationalisation abroad– off-shore delivery– More Euro-Asian collaborative taught programmes– European intervention in Anglophone markets in Asia– distance-learning– networks and partnerships


Funding and Finance

• Funding is a major issue: HE tuition in Europe is funded, per student, 10k less than in the USA

• Continue to develop alternative streams of income• Build a fund-raising/development capacity• Establish an endowment for the next generation

(Increasing university endowments is the route to real funding freedom in the long term)

• Develop further financial aid possibilities• Fees debate• Sustainable Universities (surplus)


Research and Teaching

• Research excellence: building on strengths• Higher Education and Business: Exchanging

and developing knowledge and skills• Teaching and learning: delivering excellence


Leadership and Management:Critical Attributes

• Leadership and partnership– Of our staff, of the profession and partnership with

academics• Risk manager / taker• Flexible, non-bureaucratic

– Don’t be part of the compliance culture• Visible, not boardroom only• Strategic

– Not operationally (detailed) focus• Open to new ideas, cultures


Heads of Administration need to be ...

• Loyal and committed• Intuitive• Stubborn and resolute• Moral code of ethics• Accomplished trapeze artist• Team player• Tact and diplomacy• Honesty and integrity• Jack of all trades


Quiz time!

What other qualities and characteristics do we need to

succeed?


Qualities and characteristics







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Living with ineffability and ambiguity

Actually, there is no recipe…and no-one has all the ingredients anyway


What are we here for?

‘ ……..the advancement of learning and knowledge by teaching and research and the provision of a University education.’


Where are we going?

Forget the road map and use the compass


Jon F Baldwin Registrar Responding to Challenges and Opportunities in Modern Universities: What behaviours, attitudes and styles do we need for success?

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