SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP

SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP

Enhancing and Sustaining ASIAN Higher Education Institution Leadership:

AKEPT’s Mission and Strategic Role


Outline


1. Leadership in IHL

2. Challenges &

Opportunities

3. Enhancing and Sustaining IHL

Leadership: the case of Malaysia

4. AKEPT’s Mission and

Strategic Roles

Leadership in IHL?


Leadership is the transformation of expertise and vision into actions that are judged effective by the led (Cowan & Heywood, 2001)

Academic leadership as ‘… a practical and everyday process of supporting, managing, developing and inspiring academic colleagues...’ (Ramsden, 1998:4)

Academic leadership is the act of building a community of scholars to set direction and achieve common purpose through the empowerment of faculty and staff (Gmelch & Wolverton, 2002)

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GLOBAL SCENARIO OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Challenges

The role of universities

and academics

Curriculum that meets

market needs

R&D&C in a national

innovation systemsTeaching and

learning methods

Widening of access and

mobility

Globalization &

Standardization

Resource utilization


Leadership of AIHL: Challenges


• The quality of students?• Students for the ‘real world’?• Students with the ‘right’ skills?• Students with ‘ASIAN and world-class’ citizen?• The ‘lost’ soul of higher education?• ‘Hungry for success’ phenomena?• Increasing cost and investment in HE?• University Leadership in Crisis? (Sirat, Ahmad & Azman (2012). Higher Education Policy, 25: 511-529).

Leadership of AIHL: Opportunities


• ‘ASIAN Century’- where Asian politics, economy and culture is expected to dominate the 21st Century.

• Highly intellectual, but respect, proud of and preserved ASIAN work culture and traditions.

• Collaboration – leveraging on each other’s strengths through AUPF platform.

Strong and Sustainable Leadership• A nation’s success can only come, and be

sustainable by an intellectual leader with a strong character.

• To strategise and ensure that the leadership will ‘be able to withstand the global storms and lead us through challenges high and low to take us to greater heights of success.’

• Asian IHL leaders need to be more visible in a changing global HE landscape.


National issue:• to transform into

a high income nation

• the need for strong leadership at higher education institutions

Sustainability issue• Charting growth

through a solid trajectory for nurturing streams of innovative, entrepreneurial and global talents for Malaysia

World Class Standard of HE• to ensure that

Malaysia becomes a quality HE hub to nurture talents, and a beehive for research and development by the year 2020

Significance of Enhancing and Sustaining AIHL Leadership: the case of Malaysia

ETPHETPGTP

NHE

SP

Phase 1Foundation

Phase 3

Excellence

Relationship GTP, ETP & HETP

N(H)EM New worldview Civilisational-based Re(de)fining the Global Knowledge Systems

NEM High-income Inclusiveness Sustainability People First Quality of Life

MOE 5 systems aspirations 6 individual aspirations 11 shifts 3 waves

MOE

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NHESP: THE SEVEN STRATEGIC THRUSTS


THE SEVEN STRATEGIC

THRUSTS

Widening Access and Increasing

Equity Improving Quality of

Teaching and Learning

Intensifying Research and Innovation

Strengthening of Higher Education

Institutions (HEIs)

Intensifying Internationali

- sation

Enculturation of Lifelong Learning

Reinforcing MoHE’s Delivery System

NHESP: 23 Critical Agenda Projects (CAPs)


Governance Leadership Academia Teaching &

Learning R & D Internationalisation

Graduate Employabil

ityPrivate

HEIs APEX MyBrain 15 Lifelong Learning

Academic Audit

PTPTN (Accessibilit

y & Sustainabilit

y

Human Capital

Development Fund

MOHE Delivery System

Holistic Student

Development

Polytechnic Transforma-

tionAcademia-

Industry

PTPTN (Accessibility & Sustainability

Human Capital Development

Fund

MOHE Delivery System

Holistic Student

Development

Polytechnic Transforma

-tion

Academia-Industry

The new robust 2nd Phase National Higher Education Plan focuses on:


1 •Strengthening efforts in producing human capital

2 •Enriching creativity and innovation in HE

3 •Creating a conducive higher education ecosystem

4 •Benefitting globalization

5 •Transforming leadership

Example of Ministerial Leadership – National Higher Education Strategic Plan – Phase II

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Institution Number Student Staff

Public University

20 523,020 29,713

Private University & Colleges

33(9)

425

407,296 22,068

Polytechnic 30 92,148 7,306

Community College

80 22,380 2,750

Total 588 1,044,844 61,837

Malaysian HEI’s Students & Academic Staff, 2013


Higher Education Leadership Academy (AKEPT)


• Established in January 2008• An organization under the Ministry of

Education, Malaysia• Is in line with the launching of National Higher

Education Strategic Plan (NHESP) - to transform higher education in Malaysia, especially in the area of human capital development.

AKEPT’s Vision

To be acknowledged as the global benchmark and referral centre for Higher

Education Leadership, Learning and Teaching and Research and Innovation.


AKEPT’s Missions1) To align with the Ministry’s transformational agenda

for higher education to ensure that higher education institutions are globally competitive.

2) To be recognized as the premier referral centre for research and innovation, teaching and learning, and leadership competencies for higher education.

3) To facilitate Higher Education Institutions in making Ministry’s transformation agenda a success.


AKEPT’s Objectives1) To strengthen the governance and organization of higher

education institutions through the provision of training, advisory, and coaching programs designed for senior and middle management to develop effective and strategic leadership talent.

2) To generate a culture of creative and innovative solutions to the critical issues on leadership in higher education through effective research.

3) To provide innovation in crafting learning and teaching strategies to improve the quality of learning among students.

4) To brand AKEPT through regional and international leadership institutions


1) To pursue the Leadership Critical Agenda in achieving the desired goal of NHESP.

2) To provide relevant and pragmatic training programs, advice and facilitation to higher education institutions.

3) To promote and facilitate a culture of research and publication on issues and challenges in higher education.

4) To put in place a structured framework and provide advices on succession planning for higher education institutions.

5) To strengthen leadership in learning and teaching in HEIs.6) To inculcate leadership skills among student leaders to become

future leaders. 7) To widen and encourage international collaboration.


AKEPT’s Strategic Roles

AKEPT’s Strategic Action Plan

To be acknowledged as the global benchmark and referral

centre for Higher Education Leadership, Learning and Teaching and Research and Innovation

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1) Succession planning and talent management 2) Leadership training for top and middle management in higher education

institutions

3) Leadership training for Young Lecturers

4) Leadership training for Master Trainers in learning & teaching

5) Development of training modules in learning & teaching

6) Training in research, innovation and commercialization

7) Training in research and publication8) Seminar in academia leadership, learning and teaching as well as

research and innovation

AKEPT’s Strategic Programmes


AKEPT’s Leadership ModelGlobal

Strategic

Foundation

Research Teaching Services


• Empowered HEI Leaders

• Centre for Leadership Training

• Centre for Leadership in Learning and Teaching

• Centre for

Leadership in Research and Innovation

• Involvement of; - HEI Top Management - Administrators - Lecturers - Young

Lecturers - Student

Leaders• Training Modules• Profiling• Succession Plan• Publications• Research• Talent Pool

AKEPT’s Centre OutcomesOutputs

AKEPT’s Programme Output/Outcome


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