AN institute for the training of the next generation of university and VET leaders would offer consultancy services as well as masters degrees and short courses, its prospectus has announced.
The LH Martin Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Management will open its doors at the University of Melbourne on August 30.
The prospectus, released yesterday, says the institute will allow senior education managers, public servants, policy analysts and researchers to get together to “explore the leadership and management implications of their changing environment and policy framework”.
The institute's main game is education: it will offer masters courses and short award and non-award courses.
The flagship masters will be delivered only part-time and modularised so students can build it around their jobs.
Courses would also be developed for members of governing bodies, the prospectus said.
“Applied research skills in management and policy analysis will form a significant component of the institute's program and may become the centrepiece of specialised award or short courses,” the prospectus says.
Collaborations would be a mainstay for the institute: the University of New England's Centre for Higher Education Management and Policy will be a primary external collaborator, and UNE will be represented on the institute's advisory board.
A university spokesman told The Australian the institute would differ from the existing Centre for the Study of Higher Education in that it would be a teaching institute.
The CSHE is primarily a research body, although the two would collaborate from time to time.
A selection process for a director of the LH Martin Institute was under way, the spokesman said.
The University of Melbourne received $10million in May from federal Education, Science and Training Minister Julie Bishop.
It is named after Leslie Harold Martin, former chairman of the Australian Universities Commission and the author of the 1965 Martin commission report that prompted the establishment of colleges of advanced education.
Brendan O'Keefe | August 08, 2007
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22205422-25918,00.html
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