Online Training Platform – INsPIRE Training on University Management

The Capacity Building action of INsPIRE included a virtual training on Moodle, with synchronous and asynchronous sessions for a total of 45 hours of training, performed between December 15h and January 21st.

The online training was hosted in the online training platform of UNIMED available here: https://learn.uni-med.net/

The training was directed to: middle management (service directors and other administrative staff, rectorate staff, positions in the general management of the university), administrative staff at Faculty level, leaders of special areas.

INsPIRE Training on University Management

The aim of the virtual training was to develop knowledge, capacities, and skills for the management in the universities. The focus will be on university governance and university management.

Main areas of training will be:

1. An Idea of University
2. University general concepts
3. The university general mission areas: the four pillars
4. Management process of the University pillars:
   1. Strategy focus
   2. Administrative focus
   3. Process management
5. The organisation development system:
   1. Leadership
   2. Academic Culture
   3. Governance structure model
6. Management system:
   1. Human resources management
   2. Financial management
   3. Quality management
   4. Information system management

Resources

• Session 1 – December 20, 2021
• Session 2 – December 23, 2021
• Session 3 – December 28, 2021
• Session 4 – December 30, 2021
• Session 5 – January 4, 2022
• Session 6 – January 6, 2022
• Session 7 – January 11, 2022
• Session 8 – January 13, 2022
• Session 9 – January 18, 2022

Bibliography

• Why Are We Here? The Changing Nature of Administrative Middle Management at an English HEI
• Shaping the University of the Future
• Article 1 – The cost of managerialism in the university
• Article 2 – Management of Higher Education Institutions and the Evaluation of their Efficiency and Performance
• Article 3 – Management Accounting and Control Systems in the Uppsala Internationalization Process Model. A Case Study
• Article 4 – The New Leadership Model of University Management for
• Article 5 – 1981_Higher Education Management_The Name of the Game Is Change
• Article 6 – Managing University Culture: an analysis of the relationship between institutional culture and management approaches
• Article 7 – Strategic Planning In Public Higher Education: Management Tool Or Publicity Platform
• Article 8 – Strategic development and SWOT analysis
• The University Idea
• The process of change in university management: from the “Ivory Tower” to entrepreneurialism