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This book results from interviews conducted with higher education leaders in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the US, and the UK. It gives the reader a deep and personal insight into what leaders faced in transforming their universities through the financial shocks, changes in learning practice, and returns to new ways of working accelerated by the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The features of the book are a series of reflections about issues faced by leaders, recorded, analysed, and reflected on at the time they happened. These are combined in an overall theoretical framework, also informed by other scholarly work in the field, to allow the reader to understand what has happened to our universities and what they will and must do next.
For leaders, staff, students, and employers, the book will give an in-depth context, analysed into a simple agenda, to frame future expectations of the changing world of higher education and its implications for leadership in this and other sectors.
List of contents
1. Introduction 2. The sector and its context 3. University strategy 4. University leadership, staff, and culture 5. Future learners and how they learn 6. Research and external engagement 7. Conclusion Appendix - Interview Transcripts
About the author
Martin Betts is Emeritus Professor of Griffith University, having previously served as Deputy Vice Chancellor of Engagement. He was also formerly Executive Dean of Science and Engineering at QUT. He is now the co-founder of HEDx, which has the mission of changing higher education for good.
Summary
This book contains interviews from leaders of higher education in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US, and the UK. For leaders, staff, students and employers, it provides insight into what leaders faced in transforming their universities through the financial shocks, classroom delivery and working changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
