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Strategic Leadership Challenges
for HE in FE
LFHE - Background
• Established 2004
• Independent Board with private sector Chair
• Range of activities
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Open Programmes
Tailored Programmes
Membership
Research
Consultancy
International
• Small central team & Key Associates
• Funding Council funding…moving towards sustainability
Key leadership challenges in HE
Student numbers
Funding/Fees
Market positioning / ‘Brand’
Access / widening participation
Competition/collaboration
HR
IT/E-learning
Resources/Estates:
Project Management
15 key
strategic
challenges for
UK HE
institutions,
2005 - 2012
Enhancing student experience –
teaching and learning
Research – RAE leadership of research
Governance
Sustainability and
social/cultural agendas
Internationalisation
Business/regional/community
links
Embedding equality and diversity in all activities
Current priorities
• Increased competition in UK and internationally
• Need for Institutions to seek clearer
differentiation and distinctiveness
• High pay, pensions and utility costs
• Demographic downturn 18/24 in 2010 - 2020
• Reduction in international student numbers
• Very strong prospect of reduction in public
funding
Innovation Nation
White Paper, March 2008
• Innovation key to all commissioned reviews on
HE provision
• Centrality of teaching and learning as driver of
innovation
• Importance of STEM subject capabilities
• Involvement of FEIs in addressing local/subregional challenges (New Partnerships for
Innovation prospectus expected soon)
• Leadership and management needed to provide
‘space’ for ideas, managing risk and being open to
failure
How do leaders learn?
• Filling specific ‘skills’ gaps eg strategic planning,
strategic leadership, scenario planning, risk
management
• Thinking ‘outside the box’ (eg cross-sector/cross
boundaries)
• Engaging with networks
• Being offered challenge as well as support,
• Finding space to ‘reflect’, apply new learning,
observe and analysie
Interest for HE leaders in FE
Short courses:
Strategic planning & financial management (2 day elective)
Scenario planning & risk management (2 day elective)
Six day programmes:
Senior Strategic Leadership –
Inspiring Commitment: Directors of HE
Preparing for Senior Strategic Leadership –
Creating the Challenge: Programme Coordinators, aspiring
Directors of HE