Institutional Governance in Higher Education

Course Code: MMAHEM_05

Masters Level Module

The aim of this two-and-a-half day residential module is to introduce participants to the principles and practice of institutional governance and to consider them critically from a higher education perspective. Corporate governance issues have become increasingly important following well-publicised company failures. Higher education has undertaken large-scale reforms in corporate governance in the last few years, and the module will address this area in depth. But institutional governance is a wider theme and the module will examine evidence of changes in institutional governance and the roles of key players and structures. The range of issues and/or concepts covered includes: corporate governance in the public and private sectors; good governance practice and its effectiveness in higher education; and the role of governing bodies in strategy formulation.

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