Higher Education Strategy and Planning: A Professional Guide

✍ Scribed by Tony Strike (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 276
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Higher Education Strategy and Planning draws together a team of expert contributors from across the sector to offer contemporary descriptions of practice in Higher Education and critical reflections on that practice. Many of the tools and techniques transcend the particular national system within which they are situated and therefore have global relevance for all those interested in strategy and planning in Higher Education. Containing chapters on each of the major functions or capabilities of strategic planners, critiques of global policy trends, framework examples and explanations of the main league tables both in the UK and globally, the book is divided into five main parts:

• Context and Positioning;

• Integrated Planning;

• Centrality, Co-ordination and Connection;

• Analytical Capacity and Capability;

• Insight and Information.

This text offers a contemporary representation of strategic planning and will be an indispensable guide for all those who work in or study Higher Education, particularly aimed at those who work in strategy, planning and leadership roles.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of contributors
List of figures
List of tables
Introduction
Part 1: Context and positioning
1 Locating universities in a globalising world • Susan L. Robertson and Kris Olds
2 The functions of strategic planning • Tony Strike, Martin Hanlon and Dominic Foster
3 Developing institutional strategy • John Pritchard
Part 2: Integrated planning
4 The planning cycle – a strategic conversation • Steve Chadwick and Olivia Kew-Fickus
5 Student number planning • Lucy Hodson
6 Generating a research strategy for sustained success and growth • Jane Boggan, Rebecca Lambert, Elizabeth Westlake and Michael Wykes
Part 3: Centrality, co-ordination and connection
7 Leadership, governance and decision-making • Tony Strike and David Swinn
8 Risk management • Rhiannon Birch, Rachel Pye, Claire McDonald and John Baker
9 Finance, resource allocation and income forecasting • Sonia Virdee and Andrew Keeble
Part 4: Analytical capacity and capability
10 Data capability across the information landscape • Andy Youell and Dan Kidd
11 Business intelligence and analytics • Thomas Loya and Giles Carden
Part 5: Insight and information
12 Indicators for measuring and managing performance • Mike Kennerley
13 Benchmarking and rankings • Nicki Horseman
14 Responsible metrics • James Wilsdon
Index