A group of 10 newly inducted public sector institutional heads of Pakistan attended a week-long training in United Kingdom (UK) on leadership, strategic planning, commercialisation of universities, research and development, quality assurance, action learning and knowledge exchange.
This training program was exclusively designed by the Leadership Foundation United Kingdom, based on the need of assessment given by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) in collaboration with the British Council Pakistan.
“The purpose was to provide customised in-depth and holistic orientation to the emerging leaders so that they could successfully run their institutions, manage faculty and administrative officials with the help of latest management techniques more professionally,” said a press release on Sunday. Eminent academicians and experts of higher education in United Kingdom delivered lectures and shared the best international practices with the vice chancellors.
HEC was committed to arrange training for the top management of intuitions of higher learning under its Modern University Governance Programme.
In addition to the conceptual framework of the aforementioned areas, the participants visited the Universities of Leicester and Coventry for getting first hand experience.
Separate themes based on meetings were held where the participants were briefed about the structure and workings of universities.
Topics of common interest and collaboration were also discussed.
The batch, on its return, would cascade their learning experience with their counterparts in regional clusters across Pakistan with the purpose to enable all HEIs across Pakistan to adopt best strategic management and planning models.