Announcing the pilot of a groundbreaking Advance HE programme, Leading Educational Change, Professor Rafe Hallett outlines the thinking behind it with co-designers Professor Mark O’Hara and Hannah Fromageau.
In 2023, Advance HE published the Leadership Survey for Higher Education report in response to the guiding question ‘what works for leadership in higher education’?
Priority areas that emerged for the development of leadership included teamwork, partnership and collaboration. Collaboration was pinpointed as a key value within global higher education as well as being defined as a top leadership quality. Successful educational leadership is perceived to be about understanding and engaging with diverse people across roles, teams and cultures, and about fostering subtle kinds of collaboration.
This, in part, is why Advance HE has designed a new leadership programme Leading Educational Change. Targeted at senior, academic and professional leaders, it will run as a pilot from April this year and then as an open programme from Autumn 2024.
