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SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP. SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP. Enhancing and Sustaining ASIAN Higher Education Institution Leadership: AKEPT’s Mission and Strategic Role. Outline. SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP. Leadership in IHL?.
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SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP Enhancing and Sustaining ASIAN Higher Education Institution Leadership: AKEPT’s Mission and Strategic Role
Outline SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
Leadership in IHL? Leadershipis 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) SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
GLOBAL SCENARIO OF HIGHER EDUCATION SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
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). SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
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. SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
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. SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
Significance of Enhancing and Sustaining AIHL Leadership: the case of Malaysia
Relationship GTP, ETP & HETP • NEM • High-income • Inclusiveness • Sustainability ETP GTP • MOE • 5 systems • aspirations • 6 individual • aspirations • 11 shifts • 3 waves New HETP • People First • Quality of Life • N(H)EM • New worldview • Civilisational-based • Re(de)fining the • Global Knowledge • Systems NHESP • MOE
NHESP: THE SEVEN STRATEGIC THRUSTS SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
NHESP: 23 Critical Agenda Projects (CAPs) SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
The new robust 2ndPhase National Higher Education Plan focuses on: SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
Example of Ministerial Leadership – National Higher Education Strategic Plan – Phase II
Malaysian HEI’s Students & Academic Staff, 2013 SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
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. SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
AKEPT’s Vision To be acknowledged as the global benchmark and referral centre for Higher Education Leadership, Learning and Teaching and Research and Innovation. SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
AKEPT’s Missions • To align with the Ministry’s transformational agenda for higher education to ensure that higher education institutions are globally competitive. • To be recognized as the premier referral centre for research and innovation, teaching and learning, and leadership competencies for higher education. • To facilitate Higher Education Institutions in making Ministry’s transformation agenda a success. SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
AKEPT’s Objectives • 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. • To generate a culture of creative and innovative solutions to the critical issues on leadership in higher education through effective research. • To provide innovation in crafting learning and teaching strategies to improve the quality of learning among students. • To brand AKEPT through regional and international leadership institutions SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
AKEPT’s Strategic Roles • To pursue the Leadership Critical Agenda in achieving the desired goal of NHESP. • To provide relevant and pragmatic training programs, advice and facilitation to higher education institutions. • To promote and facilitate a culture of research and publication on issues and challenges in higher education. • To put in place a structured framework and provide advices on succession planning for higher education institutions. • To strengthen leadership in learning and teaching in HEIs. • To inculcate leadership skills among student leaders to become future leaders. 7) To widen and encourage international collaboration. SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
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 CORPORATESOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PROGRAMMES PUBLICATION GOVERNANCE TALENT POOL BRANDING LEADERSHIP COLLABORATION INTERNATIONALIZATION NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION STRATEGIC PLAN SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
AKEPT’s Strategic Programmes • Succession planning and talent management • Leadership training for top and middle management in higher education institutions • Leadership training for Young Lecturers • Leadership training for Master Trainers in learning & teaching • Development of training modules in learning & teaching • Training in research, innovation and commercialization • Training in research and publication • Seminar in academia leadership, learning and teaching as well as research and innovation SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
AKEPT’s Leadership Model SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
AKEPT’s Programme Output/Outcome AKEPT’s Centre Outputs Outcomes • Involvement of; • - HEI Top • Management • - Administrators • - Lecturers • - Young Lecturers • - Student Leaders • Training Modules • Profiling • Succession Plan • Publications • Research • Talent Pool • Centre for Leadership Training • Centre for Leadership in Learning and Teaching • Centre for Leadership in Research and Innovation • Empowered HEI Leaders SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP
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TerimaKasih Mohd. Majid Konting majidk@mohe.gov.my SHAPING MINDS, BUILDING LEADERSHIP