Issues and Concerns: Governance and Management

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Issues and Concerns Governance and Management

• Professor Dr. Adulya Viriyavejakul
• M.D.,Ll.B., F.R.C.P., F.R.I.
• President, Mahasarakham University

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Higher Education in Developing Countries

• Peril
• and
• Promise

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Shift of Capital

• From Physical capital to Knowledge capital
• Present and Future Wealth of the Nation stems
  from different focus
• Leading to lifestyle and Quality of Life of
  the people

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• Knowledge gap
• Participation gap
• Quality gap

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Knowledge equals Higher Education

• Increased quality and standard a degree plus
  suitable skills is now a basic qualification for
  many skilled jobs
• More participation in HE expected
• National competitiveness depends on the quality
  of knowledge generated within the HE institutions
  and its availability of the wider economy

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The Current Situation

• Faculty Quality
• Problems faced by Students
• Insufficient Resources and Autonomy

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Faculty Quality

• Well-qualified and highly motivated faculties
  critical to the quality of HE institutions
• poorly-qualified faculties
• teaching methods often outmoded

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Faculty Quality

• ill-conceived incentive structures poorly paid,
  bureaucratic system, market forces seldom
  used,etc.
• Politicization wider impact on the atmosphere
  of the system

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Faculty Quality

• Moonlighting and excessive absenteeism common
• Low wages forcing faculties to seek extra-income
  from other sources

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Higher Education System should meet different
goals

• Satisfying demand from students for an
  increasingly sophisticated and rewarding
  education
• Training the people needed to run a modern
  society and contribute to its further advancement

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Higher Education System should meet different
goals

• 3. Providing a forum in which a society can
  examine its problems and identify appropriate
  solutions and
• 4. Offering a setting in which a society culture
  and values can be studied and developed.

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HE Institutions in Developing Countries

• Need to be sure to provide students with the
  abilities that are needed in rapidly changing
  world.
• A general education is an excellent form of
  preparation for the flexible, knowledge-based
  careers that increasingly dominate the upper
  tiers of the modern labour force

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HE Institutions in Developing Countries

• A specific expertise in technology will almost
  inevitably become obsolete.
• The ability to learn, however, will continue to
  provide valuable insurance against the vagaries
  of a rapidly changing economic environment

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General or Liberal Education

• a curriculum (or part of a curriculum) aimed at
  imparting general knowledge and developing
  general intellectual capacities in contrast to a
  professional, vocational or technical curriculum

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General or Liberal Education

• Characterized by its focus on the whole
  development of an individual, apart from his
  occupational training.civilizing of his life
  purposes, the refining of his emotional
  reactions, and the maturing of his understanding
  of the nature of things according to the best
  knowledge of our time

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The Roles of General Education

• enhances the roles of individuals who will be
  leaders,educated citizens and trained workers for
  industry, government and politics.
• promotes responsible citizenship, ethical
  behaviour, educational ambition, professional
  development in a a broad range of fields, and
  even global integration.

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The Roles of General Education

• promotes civil society through its contribution
  to broad-mindedness, critical thinking, and
  communication skills, all of which are essential
  elements of effective participatory democracy.
• help reduce the brain drain.

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Governance

• Government (State) Universities
• Direct control
• Indirect control (Buffer agency)
• Governing body - Management
• Roles, functions and responsibilities

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University Council

• Composition Representation, number and methods
  of selection
• Academic staff
• Administrators (deans, directors etc.)
• Support staff
• President
• Outside members
• Roles, Functions and Responsibilities

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Management

• University Council - Management team lead by the
  President
• President Deans, Director etc.
• Deans, Directors Heads of academic units

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An integrative approach for development

• Systems and Structure
• National level
• University level
• Teaching and learning reform
• Personnel (staff) development

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An integrative approach for development

• Development in administrative (management)
  patterns and styles
• Quality Assurance System and Quality Enhancement
  Mechanism
• Mechanism for sustainable development

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Keys for Progress

• L Leadership
• G Governance
• M management
• SS Systems and Structures

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Thank you