STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
& LEADERSHIP IN HIGHER
EDUCATION
5 Day Programme in Cardiff-UK
‫دورة متقدمة في‬
‫اإلدارة االستراتيجية والقيادة‬
‫في التعليم العالي‬
‫ بريطانيا‬- ‫كاردف‬
Dates
23-27/3/2015
03-07/6/1436 H
brought to you by
Cardiff Metropolitan University
&
27-31/7/2015
in association with
11-15/10/1436 H
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The Cardiff School of Education, one of the academic schools of
Cardiff Metropolitan University presents this proposal in response
to the interest shown in the 5-day international staff development
course entitled: Strategic Planning and Leadership in Higher
Education, offered by the Cardiff School of Education.
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INTRODUCTION
Information and Credentials of Cardiff Metropolitan University
With over 11,000 students, from over 140 countries worldwide, Cardiff Metropolitan
University is, in terms of size, in the middle range of the UK university sector. Further
information about the university is available at www.cardiffmet.ac.uk
The primary business of Cardiff Metropolitan University is the provision of Higher
Education through full-time, part-time and flexible study. Activities relating to
research, training and consultancy are provided on a broad base and cover local,
national and international provision. This includes carrying out commissioned
research, funded projects, social and community projects and evaluation studies.
Cardiff Metropolitan University’s expertise covers five broad discipline areas
including; Health Sciences, Education, Sport, Management and Art & Design.
Cardiff Metropolitan University provides education and training opportunities that
are accessible, flexible and of the highest quality, and has been independently
acclaimed for its high academic standards and for its high level of student
satisfaction. Learning and teaching will always be at the heart of what we do at
Cardiff Metropolitan University.
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The University is consistently ranked as the TOP ‘new’ university in Wales in
all the major ranking tables – The Times Good University Guide, The Sunday
Times University Guide, The Guardian University Guide, The Independent
Complete University Guide.
The Higher Education Academy’s Postgraduate Research Students Survey
ranked Cardiff Metropolitan among the top 10 UK universities in all of its five
key areas of measurement.
High quality education which includes the latest research and innovative
approaches to learning.
Cardiff Metropolitan University was most recently inspected by the higher
education Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) in 2014. The QAA concluded
that it had overall ‘confidence’ in the university (i.e. the highest grade) with
regard to its effectiveness in discharging its academic obligations and as a
qualification awarding body.
In January 2006 Cardiff Metropolitan University gained institution-wide
Investors in People status. Cardiff Metropolitan University is only one of a
handful of Higher Education Institutions to achieve this standard.
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The Course
Cardiff Metropolitan University has a broad range of teaching qualifications in its portfolio
of accredited programmes and Continuing Professional Development provision. The course,
Strategic Planning and Leadership in Higher Education, is suitable for academic staff with
management responsibilities and for those with aspirations to assume management
responsibilities within their university.
The proposed Strategic Planning and Leadership in Higher Education course will be delivered
as a 5 day schedule and facilitated by Cardiff Metropolitan University staff who have academic,
management and senior management positions within the School Typical course content may
include:
Course Content
The course has been developed to meet the needs of existing, and aspiring managers and
leaders who wish to develop skills that will enable them to engage with the strategic planning
process and hone the skills in leadership to maximise their effectiveness in driving the vision
and mission of their own university/faculty forward.
-- What is Strategic Planning?
-- Developing and Formulating strategy for managing resources
-- A strategic approach for managing resources
-- Organisational capability and resource management
-- Strategic approach for learning, teaching and assessment
-- Strategic Planning and Change management
-- Managing conflict and exercising influence
-- Financial planning and assessing risk management
-- Strategic approaches to embedding NCAAA standards
-- A strategic approach to developing strong academic leaders
-- Strategic leadership
-- Making strategy a learning process
-- Managing strategy at school/faculty level
-- Working on a strategic plan
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Delivery
The Cardiff School of Education aims to provide the highest quality
education and training. Delegates from MEA would enjoy excellent
facilities for study and research; they would be able to access on-site
facilities such as the Learning Centre which includes: a comprehensive
enquiry and user education service from library staff; a quiet study
area, a photocopying area, study advice from Learning and Teaching
staff, 24-hour access to IT facilities and a computer suite with over 240
PCs and a dedicated helpdesk where advisors are on hand to respond
to student enquiries. The library houses a reference and lending
collection and subscribes to over 400 journals.
Cardiff Metropolitan University classrooms are clean, well lit and well
maintained (in order to comply with Cardiff Metropolitan University’s
health and safety regulations) and well equipped with ICT resources,
including interactive whiteboards. Fire instructions and emergency
procedures and exits are standard.
The team delivering the Strategic Planning and Leadership in Higher
Education course bring the following expertise:
-- a relevant teaching profile;
-- a relevant research profile;
-- relevant qualifications;
-- in-depth subject knowledge;
-- up-to-date understanding of current initiatives relating to staff
development in Higher Education;
-- Experience of strategic planning;
-- Experience of leadership in their professional role within Cardiff
Metropolitan University;
-- experience of working collaboratively with international partners;
-- experience of working with international delegates;
-- experience of teaching within universities and colleges.
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Proposed Speaker Profiles
KEY SPEAKERS
Professor Mohammed Loutfi
Pro - vice Chancellor
(international)
Dr Mohamed LOUTFI holds a
BSc in Economics and Political
Science, an MSc in Information
Technology and a PhD
in Systems Thinking. Systems
thinking is the paradigm which promotes an
holistic as opposed to an analytic view and allows
a more flexible, creative approach to problem
solving whilst recognising the thin boundary
between control and autonomy. Dr Loutfi worked
on several EU projects for Education Reforms,
Accreditation and Quality assurance in Ukraine,
Russia, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt. He was the
principal investigator for an EU project working
with the Lebanese Ministry of Higher Education,
the projects aim was to make the Lebanese higher
education institutions aware of the European
higher education quality models and allows them
to benefit from the European experiences in the
field of quality assurance.
Paul Gibbins
Module Leader for Educational
Management and Leadership,
Cardiff Met
David Price
Director of Strategy
Development
David Price is Director of
Strategy Development, with
respon sibility for managing Cardiff Metropolitan
University’s strategic planning and associated
processes. Before joining Cardiff Met in 1999,
David’s career in higher education encompassed
working for two UK Funding Councils on policy
issues associated with both research and teaching,
in the process contributing to the national reviews
of library provision, performance indicators and
research assessment. He has subsequently held
planning-related posts at three UK universities.
On being appointed Director of Strategy
Development at Cardiff Metropolitan University,
David’s mandate was to create and implement
a full range of integrated corporate planning
processes and mechanisms to supersede a
limited number of ad hoc and disparate planning
activities. As a member of the Vice-Chancellor’s
Board his role also includes representing the
Vice-Chancellor at home and abroad, project
management and key review processes.
Paul Gibbins is the module
leader for Educ ational
Management and Leadership,
a part of the Masters course at Cardiff Met. He has
also run the PGCE course in English at the same
institute.
He worked as a teacher for most of his career which
culminated in his assistant headship at a large
comprehensive school.
He works closely with Professor Dorothy Heathcote
on her teaching method, the Mantle of the Expert,
which he utilises in his approach to learning for all
age groups.
He is Chair of the National Association for the
Teaching of Drama. He now runs his own company,
Operative Learning as an educational consultant.
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KEY SPEAKERS
Jo Bowers
Gill Jones
Associate Dean: Enterprise
Deputy Dean: Learning and
Teaching, Cardiff School of
Education
Jo’s primary role is to
work with academic staff
within the Cardiff School
of Education to generate
enterprise activity. This is
what was once referred to as the university’s
Third Mission, but is now considered to be
‘Innovation and Engagement’.
In this role, she manages a wide range
of enterprise activity that includes the
development of short courses that meet
the specific needs and aspirations of
interested learners. More specifically, Jo has
responsibility for developing the School’s
International Staff Development Programme
that includes opportunities such as Research
Skills
Training,
International
Quality
Assurance programmes, Professional Skills
for Academics, the accredited Post-graduate
Certificate: Learning, Teaching & Assessing in
Higher Education and the Strategic Planning
in Higher Education programme.
Gill was the Programme
Director for the PGCE/Cert
Ed PCET programme where she took the
programme through a successful validation
and was instrumental in gaining Nursing
Midwifery Council endorsement for the
programme. She also lectures on the portfolio
of programmes that relate to Post-compulsory
Education & Training. Here she developed the
Quality Assurance module for the BA PCET.
She has given presentations for the NCAAA,
regarding Quality Assurance and presented at
the 3rd annual AROQA conference, Harnessing
Quality, in 2011. From an institutional
perspective, Gill contributes to Cardiff
Metropolitan University’s Quality systems with
involvement in committees/panels such as
Mitigating Circumstances and Unfair Practice.
She is currently undertaking a Professional
Doctorate that looks at the challenges faced
by academics engaged in enterprise activity.
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KEY SPEAKERS
Dr Cecilia Hannigan Davies
Gabriel Jezierski i-zone
Programme Director –
Postgraduate Continuing
Professional Development
Framework in Education
Manager Cardiff Metropolitan
University
Gabriel is the Manager of
the
Cardiff
Metropolitan
University’s i-Zone. The i-Zone
has been developed as a single
point of contact for student
enquires, http://www3.uwic.ac.uk/english/izone/
pages/home.aspx. He was formerly the Head of
Learning and Teaching at Cardiff Metropolitan
University and ran the Learning and Teaching
Support Unit. He also taught on the MA (Ed) in the
Cardiff School of Education.
Gabriel undertook a secondment to the Higher
Education Academy where he was Head of Policy
and Partnerships for Wales and Northern Ireland
and responsible for leading the development
and co-ordination of a strategic approach for all
Academy quality enhancement activities across
Wales and Northern Ireland in line with Welsh and
NI HE policy and practice.
He has ten years international work experience
working in a number of global operations across
a range of sectors including three as a bilingual
consultant in the Catalan Regional Government’s
Department of Education in Catalonia, Barcelona.
Born and educated in the
Republic of Ireland, Cecilia Hannigan-Davies
has been an academic for over 25 years. Among
many professional qualifications, she holds an
Honours Bachelor’s Degree in Education from
St Patrick’s College, Dublin, a Master’s Degree
in Computer Science and Applications from the
Queen’s University of Belfast as well as a Doctorate
in Computer Science (Multimedia Intelligent
Tutoring Systems) from the University of Ulster.
She has published several papers in International
Journals and Conference Proceedings on the
subject of technology enhanced learning, and
has been a speaker and best practices presenter
at many international conferences and workshops
in the USA and Europe. Cecilia is a Chartered IT
Professional with the British Computer Society,
a status that demonstrates both competence
and a commitment to keep pace with advancing
knowledge and the increasing expectations and
requirements of the information technology
profession.
In addition, Cecilia is a Fellow of the Higher Education
Academy and a Member of the Association for
Project Management. As a Senior Lecturer in
Education at Cardiff Metropolitan University’s
School of Education, Cecilia is Programme Director
of the Postgraduate Continuing Professional
Development Framework in Education. Cecilia
previously spent 15 years with the University of
Ulster. Her most recent academic role, in their virtual
campus, Campus One, included responsibility
for staff development and faculty liaison with
respect to online learning. Her role was of strategic
importance in achieving Campus One’s aim of
providing a holistic approach to the development
of quality e-learning courses. Prior to this, Cecilia
spent three years lecturing postgraduate students
in project management with the University of
Ulster’s Faculty of Engineering, over two years
as a courseware developer on the Teaching and
Learning Technology Programme (TLTP) at the
Queen’s University of Belfast, and seven years as a
primary school teacher in the Republic of Ireland.
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Schedule Strategic Planning and Leadership in Higher Education
One Week
Programme
Outlines
Welcome Introductions
Jo Bowers – Associate Dean: Enterprise Cardiff
School of Education
Day 2
09:00 – 10:45
Day 1
09:00 – 10:45
Course introductions
What is strategic planning?
Organisational capability and resource management
-- Developing and Formulating strategy for managing
resources
-- A strategic approach for managing resources
10:45 – 11:15 – Break
11:15 – 13:00
Organisational capability and resource management
continued a strategic approach for managing resources
10:45 – 11:15 – Break
11:15 – 13:00
-- Strategic leadership
Managing strategy at school/faculty level
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
-- Working on a strategic plan
14:00 close
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 close
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Schedule Strategic Planning and Leadership in Higher Education
Day 3
Day 5
09:00 – 10:45
09:00 – 10:45
Strategic approach for learning, teaching and
assessment
Strategic approaches to embedding
NCAAA standards
-- Making strategy a learning process
10:45 – 11:15 – Break
11:15 – 13:00
Strategic Planning and Change management
-- Managing conflict and exercising influence
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 close
-- A strategic approach to developing strong
academic leaders
10:45 – 11:15 – Break
11:15 – 13:00
-- What now for Strategic Management and
Leadership in your institution?
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 Programme Closes
Day 4
09:00 – 10:45
Financial planning and assessing risk
management
10:45-14:00 FAREWELL LUNCH ( presentation
of certificates and cultural activity – off site)
14:00 close
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Programme Fee 3500 USD
Dates
The event will begin with a reception on the morning 23thMarch
2015, and will finish after lunch on 27th March 2015. Your early
reservation is highly recommended to secure your place in this
unique programme.
per participant,
the fee will include:
Full professional programme
Social Programme
(including opening reception)
Language
The programme language is English. Mother tongue languages
will be used in small groups discussions and presentations.
Welcome and farewell packs
Group photograph
International travel
Participants should make their own travel arrangements to and
from the programme venue. We strongly advise all participants to
make return reservations before leaving their own country as it
may be difficult to make them after arrival at the event.
Airport pick up can be arranged
Insurance
We strongly recommend that participants make their own
arrangements for travel and other insurance before leaving their
own country.
Simultaneous translation to Arabic will
be provided if required
Method of Payment
100% down payment to secure your place of this course.
Please transfer the fund to:
Cancellation Policy
Management Experts Academy (MEA)
Certificate of attendance will be
issued by Cardiff Met
Daily Coffee break and snaks
Weekend excursion trip
If participant decide to cancel their
courses, repayments will be made
as follows:
Bank: Alrajhi Bank -Riyadh-KSA
- Up to six weeks before: Full Amount
IBAN #: SA76 8000 0504 6080 1001 7136
- Up to four weeks before: 50%
- Up to two weeks before: No Refund
Venue:
Cyncoed Campus
MEA may cancel the programme if
participants number below 15.
Dates
23-27/3/2015
03-07/6/1436 H
&
27-31/7/2015
11-15/10/1436 H
Management Experts Academy
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh - King Abdul Aziz Road in
the north - between Anas bin Malik Street and
Prince Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Street.
Phones : 920000462 Fax : 00966114877815
Post Box : 75999 Riyadh - Zip Code : 11588
email : [email protected]
Discount:
Discount will be given for groups of
5 participants and above. Please
contact us for details.
for further information please contact :
Dr Ismail Farhat
Mob No : +966 55 87 00 437
Office No : +966 920000 462 EXT : 222
email: [email protected]
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Management Experts Academy (MEA)
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Management Experts Academy (MEA) established in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in
1990 and a subsidiary of Mawten holding company. MEA specialized in human
development fields, providing solutions through research studies, consulting
and training.
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MEA is the best strategic partner to develop your human capital and help you
stay ahead to meet the challenges facing today’s organizations with increasing
volatility and complexity as they serve globalizing and/or changing markets.
•
Global delivery capabilities
•
Delivery formats: Open-enrolment and in-company Workshops, Coaching and
Mentoring, Advice on Talent Development.
•
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Range of topics includes: English language, computer and information
technology, strategy formulation, planning and execution, leadership and
business management skills including higher education academic human
resources development.
•
Partnership with national and international providers in human resources and
management
•
Pragmatic and results oriented: +190 senior associates with national and
international business experiences on senior management level.
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh - King Abdul Aziz Road in
the north - between Anas bin Malik Street and
Prince Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Street.
Phones : 920000462 Fax : 00966114877815
Post Box : 75999 Riyadh - Zip Code : 11588
Email : [email protected] Web : www.mea.edu.sa