ERIC ED475531: Policy-Making, Strategic Planning, and Management of Higher Education. Papers on Higher Education.

194 Pages·2002·3 MB·English

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DOCUMENT RESUME
ED 475 531
HE 035 768
AUTHOR
Taylor, John; Miroiu, Adrian
Policy-Making, Strategic Planning, and Management of Higher
TITLE
Education. Papers on Higher Education.
INSTITUTION
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization, Bucharest (Romania). European Centre for Higher
Education.
ISBN
ISBN-'92-9069-168-9
PUB DATE
2002-00-00
NOTE
193p.; For the four-volume series, see HE 035 767-770.
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DESCRIPTORS
*Educational Administration; Educational Planning; Foreign
Countries; *Higher Education; *Strategic Planning
ABSTRACT
This volume is the second in a series of four publications
related to a project on the creation of a Regional University Network on
Governance and Management of Higher Education in South East Europe. It
consists of a concise presentation of the nuts and bolts of strategic
planning and management in higher education. The book takes the reader
through a set of definitions of the subject to a look at different approaches
to planning, to focus on how to plan and develop operation strategies. The
second half of the volume presents examples of good practice, ranging from
selected mission statements to the strategic plan and planning cycle of two
universities. Strategic planning and management are considered at various
levels: the whole institution, the faculty, the department or school, the
subject group or research group, and the individual. The chapters are:
(1)
"Introduction";
(2) "Governments and Higher Education";
"Structure and
(3)
Process";
(4) "How To Plan"; and (5) "Operational Strategies." Appendixes
contain descriptions of mission statements, strategic plans, learning and
teaching strategies, governance and policy making, and plans in Romanian
universities. (Contains 9 figures,
4 tables, and 77 references.)
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Papers on Higher Education
Regional University Network
PIEM
on Governance and Management
of Nigher Education in South East Europe
CEPES
Policy-Making, Strategic Planning,
and Management of Higher Education
John Taylor and Adrian Miroiu
Bucharest
2002
Papers on Higher Education
Editor of the Series:
Leland Conley Barrows
Assistants to the Editor:
Maria-Ana Dumitrescu
Valentina Pislaru
Viorica Popa
ISBN 92-9069-168-9
© UNESCO 2002
Contents
List of Figures
5
Preface
7
1. Introduction
9
1.1. What Are the Purposes of Higher Education?
9
1.2. What Is Strategic Planning?
10
1.3. The Need for Planning
11
1.4. The Need for Strategic Planning and Management
in South East Europe
13
1.5. Some Important Requirements
17
2. Governments and Higher Education
21
2.1. The Scope of Policy-Making
21
2.2. The State Control Model
21
22
2.3. The State Supervisory Model
2.4. The Market-Based Model
23
2.5. The Impact on Institutional Management
23
24
2.6. New Managerialism
2.7. The Situation in South East Europe
24
2.8. Reconstructing the Systems of Higher Education
in South East Europe
26
3. Structure and Process
29
3.1. The Planning Structure
29
3.2. Strategic Planning: The Theoretical Base
32
3.3. The Planning Process
36
3.4. Who Plans?
38
3.5. Key Points
41
4. How to Plan
43
4.1. Planning
43
4.2. Documentation and Dissemination
58
4.3. Implementation
65
4.4. Monitoring
68
5. Operational Strategies
73
5.1. Teaching and Learning Strategy
73
5.2. Research Strategy
75
5.3. Human Resources Strategy
78
5.4. Estates
80
5.5. Internationalization
82
5.6. Information Strategy
83
Appendices
87
Mission Statements
87
Strategic Plans
100
Learning and Teaching Strategy
166
Governance and Policy-Making: Strategic
Plans in Romanian Universities
179
Bibliography
185
The Authors
191
UNESCO-CEPES Publications
193
List of Figures
Figure 1. Three models of higher education in
Central and Eastern Europe
25
Figure 2. The structure of Organizational Plans
32
Figure 3. The long-standing, but still valuable, model of
strategic planning as offered by Burke and Litvin
33
Figure 4. Organizational capabilities versus
environmental demands
34
Figure 5. The definition of institutional culture
35
Figure 6. The four reasons for which change
programmes fail.
36
Figure 7. The four main phases of strategic planning
37
Figure 8. The various forms taken by Operational
Plans
62
Figure 9. Proposed institutional structure
69
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Preface
This volume is the second in a series of four publications on
aspects of governance in higher education that are being
produced as a partial outcome of the joint UNESCO-CEPES
European Commission project to create a Regional University
Network on Governance and Management of Higher Education
in South East Europe. The Programme was
originally
and
Good
"Democracy
through
One
presented
Table
Governance" of the Stability Pact for South East Europe as
part of its "quick-start package". It has been developed through
the Task Force on Education and Youth, Enhanced Graz
educational co-
a coordinating mechanism
for
Process,
operation with South East Europe.
The basic assumption of the Programme is that, when
considering the overall situation in the countries of the region,
should
higher education in particular
education in general
play a key role in supporting the search for sustainable peace,
reconciliation, and development of civil society.
Its wider objectives include the following:
universities and higher education
the
integrate
to
authorities of South East Europe into existing European
networks;
to develop higher education policies that are based on
European standards and international best practice in the
financial management,
areas of strategic management,
relations with civil society, and quality assurance;
skills
to develop national and institutional capacities and
in higher education strategic management and policy
making;
to stimulate the establishment and/or consolidation of
financial
of
and
mechanisms
structures
new
management, based on the principles
of university
autonomy and accountability, while encouraging the
society and local
establishment of links with
civil
economies.
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The anticipated outcomes of the programme
are expected to
include the following: (i) integration of the countries of South
East Europe into the European Higher Education Area
as
defined in the Bologna Declaration;
(ii) the creation of a
network of the authorities and institutions involved in higher
education
through
which
in
practice
good
academic
governance,
and
making,
policy
strategic
financial
management, and quality assurance in higher education
can
be
exchanged;
strengthened
national
institutional
(iii)
capacities and skills in regard to strategic management and
policy making in higher education; (iv) the creation of
new
structures and mechanisms for financial management, based
on the principles of university autonomy and accountability,
while encouraging links with civil society and local economies.
This volume, the second in the series of four, consists of
a
concise presentation of the nuts and bolts of strategic planning
and management in higher education. The authors,
a British
academic
J. Taylor, and a Romanian academic
A. Miroiu,
walk the reader through a set of basic definitions of the subject
to a look at different approaches to planning, to focus
on how
to plan and to develop operation strategies. The authors blend
the practical with the theoretical. The second half of the
volume cites examples of good practice ranging from selected
mission statements (Sarah Lawrence College of the USA and
St. Stephen University of Hungary), to the Strategic Plan of the
University of Edinburgh and the Planning Cycle of the
University of Melbourne in Australia. The end result should be
successful, proactive, higher education systems and institutions.
as a
We offer this second publication, that is published
volume in the UNESCO-CEPES series, Papers
on Higher
Education, in the hope that it will contribute strongly to the
anticipated goal of creating a successful Regional University
Network of Governance and Management of Higher Education
in South East Europe.
Jan Sadlak
Director of UNESCO-CEPES