Higher Education Management

Edited by: David Warner and David Palfreyman

Many higher education institutions are like small towns, meeting the needs of their members by providing not only specialist teaching and research activities but also residential accommodation, catering, telecommunications, counselling, sports facilities and so on. The management of these institutions is very complex, requiring both generalist and specialist knowledge and skills; and the move to formal strategic planning means that it is no longer acceptable for higher education managers to be aware only of their own relatively narrow areas of expertise. All new managers would benefit from an holistic perspective on managing a whole institution. As such individuals are promoted, such 'helicopter vision' becomes a precondition of their and their institution's success. Higher Education Management provides:
- the first comprehensive account of non-academic higher education management
- contributions from distinguished practitioners of university management
- a key resource for all aspiring, trainee and practising managers in higher education

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Setting the scene
- organizational culture
- strategic planning
- sources of funds and resource allocation
- financial management
- decision-making and committees
- personnel management
- student management
- postgraduate and research organization and management
- estate management
- campus support services
- student support services
- external relations
- academic support services
- managing student learning.

REVIEWS:

"...a magnificent achievement to get 14 practitioners to write 14 solid pieces about their art." - Association of Commonwealth Universities Bulletin of Current Documentation

"I do not know of any other book, written by practitioners, that presents such a complete, easy-to-read and stimulating overview of the administrative side of our enterprise." - Tertiary Education and Management

"...leads us to take stock of what we are about and where we have come from. It encourages us to lift our eyes from our areas of specialism and see the totality of the challenge of managing our extraordinary institutions." - Perspectives

"...a useful contemporary overview of managing support services in British higher education." - Studies in Higher Education

"Warner and Palfreyman have assembled a wide gathering of working university administrative practitioners who in turn bring a galaxy of wisdom and advice in this much needed handbook on university management." - Higher Education Review

Open Unversity Press
Paperback ISBN: 0335195695