Innovations in university management

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Many factors are exerting pressure to-day on the institutions of higher education to become cost-effective. The salient ones among them are: relatively high cost of higher education while there is financial scarcity; lack of relevance of contents and methods of education while there is an acceleration in the creation of new knowledge in general, and in information technology in particular; unemployment and underemployment of higher education graduates; and public demand for accountability.
The International Institute for Educational Planning launched a research project in its 1990-1995 Fifth Medium-Term Plan with the following objectives: identifying the innovative methods of improving utilization of existing resources, tracing the process from the initiation of the innovative idea to its implementation and evaluation, identifying factors associated with successful implementation of innovations, and finally, drawing practical lessons about the management of innovations for... Tovább

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Many factors are exerting pressure to-day on the institutions of higher education to become cost-effective. The salient ones among them are: relatively high cost of higher education while there is financial scarcity; lack of relevance of contents and methods of education while there is an acceleration in the creation of new knowledge in general, and in information technology in particular; unemployment and underemployment of higher education graduates; and public demand for accountability.
The International Institute for Educational Planning launched a research project in its 1990-1995 Fifth Medium-Term Plan with the following objectives: identifying the innovative methods of improving utilization of existing resources, tracing the process from the initiation of the innovative idea to its implementation and evaluation, identifying factors associated with successful implementation of innovations, and finally, drawing practical lessons about the management of innovations for improving efficiency and utilization of existing resources. The project arose from the need of the institutions of higher education in developing countries to cope with the rapidly changing socio-economic situations in which they found themselves. These have little access to information on an international scale, and many of them requested the assistance of HEP and UNESCO in overcoming difficulties and in participating in the debate taking place on institutional management. This book makes an attempt to meet the above objectives based on sucess stories from around the world and on fourteen in-depth case studies.
Bikas C. Sanyal became a staff member of the International Institute for Educational Planning (UNESCO), Paris, in 1969 where, in addition to training educational managers of the UNESCO Member States, he has directed a research programme on 'Higher Education and Employment' (1972-84), co-directed a research programme on 'Technological Development and Implications for Educational Planning' (1985-89) and directed the research programme on 'Institutional Management in Higher Education' since 1990. He is the author/co-author of a large number of books, monographs and papers on educational policy and planning. At present he is Senior Adviser at the HEP. Vissza