Title: Pathways for Effective Whole-System Intervention in Higher Education Institutional Staff Development
1Pathways for Effective Whole-System Intervention
in Higher Education Institutional Staff
Development
- Dr Patrick Oseloka EZEPUE
- Research Leader in Statistics and Information
Modelling - Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield S1 1WB, UK
2Outline
- Background
- Objectives
- Experiences and Mistakes in HEI Interventions
- Pathways for Whole-system Interventions (NIMSERC
Programme) - Ensuring Effective Nigerian Ownership
- Summary
3Rationale and Objectives
- Explore pathways for change-focused
interventions in HEIs - Demonstrate an intervention for transforming
institutional cultures, develop staff remarkably,
impact the student's learning experiences
phenomenally, and catalyse innovative
HEI-industry linkages - Discuss ways to combine direct activities which
affect stakeholders in HEIs with national and
continental roll-outs of such events
- HEIs are too traditional and disenabling
- Interventions do not succeed in transforming the
HEIs significantly - Need to base interventions on detailed
investigation of stakeholders real as opposed to
presenting needs - Need to focus on removing the constraints that
could impede programme success for all
stakeholders
4Experiences in HEI Interventions
- Pitfalls
- Unidirectional and lacks knowledge-connectedness
- Evident lack of intelligent problem solving
skills among students and some staff - Does not sufficiently cater for needs of
different stakeholders - Exacerbation of national and global social and
economic problems
- Traditional Practices
- Over-emphasis on single-disciplinary research
- The curricula are too didactic, not student led
and fail to develop modern graduate skills and
outcomes - Ineffective translation of knowledge to practice
5A High Impact Intervention Model
6The NIMSERC Research Programme
- British Council Connect Prime Ministers
Initiative 2 (PMI2) travel grant for
UK-Nigeria-Ghana Partnership Development in
Higher Education - Cross-cutting research and problem-solving theme
- New graduate outcomes including professional
skills - Sculpt continuing competences in
multi-disciplinary research among mathematics,
statistics, economics and finance academics and
professionals
7Student Needs Audit
Creative problem solving Applying core
concepts to case studies Understanding modern
and innovative research methods beyond the
traditional Critical thinking and decision
making skills Effective team working on
real-life problems Presentation and
communication skills Project and time
management skills General self-understanding
Personal effectiveness and motivation
Performance management Career-focused skills
e.g. effective CVs
8Staff Needs Audit
interdisciplinary research in mathematical
sciences relevant to industry Curriculum
innovations to support better graduate
outcomes Enhanced capacities in high impact
research Top quality PhD supervision
21st century research methods and
supervision skills
9Whole Institution Needs Audit
Curriculum innovation/balanced
assessments Holistic career models linking LTA,
research and income generation activities
Enhanced capacities in high impact
research Staff development and research
capacity building Staff development and
curriculum reinvigoration Entrepreneurship,
enterprise education and employability
International linkages in support of the
above
10Engaging with Business and Industry
Impaired man-power base Need for forensic
approach to product development Systematic
stock and capital market analyses Firm-level
equity analysis Nexus among financial
analytics, policy and stock market
development High-level mathematical modelling
of financial products Financial
engineering/risk management
11Character of the NIMSERC solution
- Addresses staff development in collaborative
learning environments - Enhances modern work, research, LTA and
entrepreneurial skills - Springboard for developing academic
entrepreneurial skills amongst staff - Radically transforms research practice in an HEI
through multidisciplinary research - Encourages joint publications among academics and
professionals
12Character of the NIMSERC solution 2
- Intensive pre-PhD workshops in foundational
topics in the contributing disciplines - Continual staff development through seminars and
conferences around the main research themes - Complimentary and wider training of industry
staff through applied seminars, workshops and
HEI-industry exchanges the training should be of
a practical flavour but informed by research - Use of field studies to expose staff and students
to real challenges to address their training
13Character of the NIMSERC solution 3
- An emphasis on advanced quantitative modelling
e.g. econometrics, financial engineering,
financial economics, investment analyses,
financial risk management, stock and capital
market analyses , complexity theory and scenario
modelling - A system of MSc-MPhil-PhD and Post-Doctoral
research on high-impact topics - Internationalization of the programme via
web-enabled interfaces of resources and outcomes - Joint authorship of leading academic papers,
specialist text books and research monographs
14Lessons Learnt for Effective Whole- System
Intervention
- Founded on detailed stakeholder needs analysis
and based on specific projects which cover those
needs - Achieved success within the consortium should
inform national roll-out of similar involving
other clusters of disciplines
15Getting on Board
- Become a consortium partner in NIMSERC
- MSc-Mphil-PhD Research in Statistics and
Information Modelling - Related pedagogical research and curriculum
re-invigoration (consultancy) - Training, workshops, transferable skills
development and professional development (within
the financial services sector)
16Concluding Desiderata
- Appendix 1 Outline of other interventions
- Appendix 2 Institutional profile for Sheffield
Hallam University - Appendix 3 Research directions in the
statistical and Information Modelling Research
Group - Appendix 4 - Brief Profile of Dr Patrick Oseloka
EZEPUE
17- Dr Patrick Oseloka EZEPUE
- Research Leader in Statistics and Information
Modelling - Communications and Computing Research Centre
(CCRC) - Sheffield Hallam University
- City Campus
- Sheffield S1 1WB, UK
- Tel 44(0)1142253163 (Office) 44(0)7772632150
(Mobile) - Email p.ezpue_at_shu.ac.uk
- www.shu.ac.uk
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