Wednesday, March 28, 2012

University Leadership and Management Training Course in Management, Germany


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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