Challenge of Higher Education Leadership

Items of Leadership Capability (Table 2) Which Address or Reduce Impact of the Challenge

1) Collaboration, partnership and interdisciplinarity

5, 11, 17, 19, 20, 23, 24, 32, 37, 39

2) Enhancing the student experience (teaching, extra-curricular, employability)

5, 11, 15, 17, 19, 25, 33

3) Learning communities and learner-centred approaches

5, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 19

4) Bureaucracy which stifles innovation and creates inefficiency and ineffectiveness

3, 4, 10, 13, 16, 17, 20, 21, 26, 27, 34, 40

5) Efficient use of resources

2, 4, 6, 10, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 33, 34, 35, 36

6) Combined role (teacher/research/citizen)

8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 17, 19, 20, 22, 29

7) Collegial preference tending towards a self-serving culture

7, 15, 17, 20, 21, 24, 30, 31, 37

8) Transitional roles for academic leaders

9, 16, 17, 20, 26, 27

9) Conflicts between management and research aspects of academic leader roles

3, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 17, 19

10) Differences between the demands encountered in Professional, Academic and Senior leadership

8, 9, 15, 17, 18, 25, 27, 28, 37

11) Need to adapt and improve the organisation

1, 2, 3, 6, 10, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41

12) Individualism and external loyalties

3, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, 30

13) Leading diversity and inclusion

5, 7, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 24, 38, 41

14) Globalisation and internationalisation

1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 15, 17, 26, 27, 29, 31, 32, 33, 37, 38, 41

15) Governance

9, 27, 34, 38, 39, 41