The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the University of Oldenburg in Germany, and the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa are jointly organising an intensive Higher Education Management Training Course (UNILEAD) in Oldenburg. UNILEAD is part of the DIES
programme (Dialogue on Innovative Higher Education Strategies), which has been jointly coordinated by the DAAD and HRK (German Rectors’ Conference) since 2001. The costs for this training course will be mainly covered by funds provided by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through the DAAD. The professional training course combines online and contact phases in a Blended Learning approach: After an introduction phase of Distance Learning the initial contact phase with a duration of three weeks (Project Management and Management of Financial Resources) will be organised in September 2012 at the University of Oldenburg in Germany. The second contact phase focusing on Human Resource Management will take place in February 2013. In between, participants are asked to
apply the skills acquired at the home university within individual projects while being accompanied by distance coaches.
Course Contents and Methodology
The course covers topics with relevance to Higher Education Management in the following three
areas:
• 1st module: Project Management
• 2nd module: Management of Financial Resources
• 3rd module: Human Resource Management
The methodology will be strictly practice orientated and is based on case studies or questions derived from the particular job situation of the participants. Thus, it is expected to bring in personal experience and to share this knowledge with the group of around 20 participants from different regions of the world. High personal motivation, the willingness to get actively involved during the online and contact phases, and English language skills on an advanced level are essential for the successful completion of this course.
Within contact phases at the University of Oldenburg, all three modules will be covered. Prior, and in preparation to this, an online phase of 8-10 weeks is scheduled in which the participants are asked to read the study material and to work on short papers, including the draft of a project action plan. These papers are meant to describe the individual work experience at the home university and to identify problems and obstacles referring to the topics of the course. During the first contact phase the personal action plans will be adjusted and fine-tuned; the milestones of the project action plans will be monitored by distance coaching between September 2012 and February 2013. Finally, during the
contact phase of the last module there will be the opportunity to reflect on the implementation of the individual projects and to discuss on next steps.
Participants’ Profile
• Participants are young university leaders aged between 30 and 40 years.
• They have been holding a university management position with managerial and personnel
responsibilities for at least two years in one of the following fields:
o Managers of central university departments (Planning, Evaluation, Financing, Human Resources, Continuing Education, International Offices, Technology Transfer etc.)
o Task force managers for university reform projects
o Managers of staff development units or programmes.
• They hold at least a Master’s degree.
• The provision of international experience will be an asset.
• Active and excellent English language skills (speaking and writing) are indispensable.
• Being a DAAD alumni will be considered an asset, but is by no means compulsory.
• Participants from universities of the following regions are eligible to apply:
o Sub-Saharan Africa (Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa)
o South East Asia (Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam) o Northern Latin America (Central America and Mexico) and Colombia
o Middle East (Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Yemen)
Closing date
Strict closing date of the application is April 8th, 2012.
Please also check out the UNILEAD homepage for more information:
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