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* Deputy Chief Executive – People, Performance and Development - Otago Polytechnic
* Deputy Chief Executive –Learning & Teaching Services - Otago Polytechnic
* Australian International Education Conference 2016
* Call for papers: Special Issue of “Active Learning in Higher Education”
* ACER Educational Research Databases Updated
* Higher Education in the Headlines
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Deputy Chief Executive – People, Performance and Development - Otago Polytechnic
16 October, 2016
Lead Organisational Change & Culture Development
Drive Innovation, Performance Improvement & New Business
New Dunedin Based Strategic Leadership Opportunity
Otago Polytechnic is recognised as one of New Zealand’s leading tertiary providers and is acknowledged as being a research-active polytechnic with a strong values-based culture of innovation and customer service. The newly developed ‘Fit for Future’ strategy heralds a change in leadership and organisational structure. A high performing strategic leadership team will lead a sharp focus on the key strategic imperatives, supported by Directors who have operational responsibility for newly aligned services and initiatives.
Reporting to the Chief Executive the five Deputy Chief Executives have a clear mandate to: Generate and deploy strategic and operational priorities; Drive a focus on business excellence, lifting organisational performance to the next level; Enhance innovation especially in the programme portfolio.
The Deputy Chief Executive – People, Performance and Development will provide strategic leadership for the development of Otago Polytechnic as a preferred employer, with a strong culture of excellence and innovation. You will champion our sustainability and performance excellence initiatives, ensuring the support of a strong service culture and self-leading teams. This role has responsibility to establish an effective business development service, as well as sound sales, marketing and communication processes. This role will be supported by Director roles including; Performance Improvement, People and Culture, Sustainability, Strategic Projects, Business Development, External Relations & Community Engagement and Marketing.
Successful candidates will have held senior Corporate Services or Organisational Development roles, with responsibility for leading performance excellence and organisation/culture development initiatives across large organisations. We want to change the way we do things and to drive cultural change, so experience with staff engagement initiatives, Baldridge, Lean methodology, business development and project management will be advantageous. We seek a strategically, people and results focused professional who is appropriately qualified and up for the challenge to lead this exciting organisational change.
Candidates can download a Candidate Briefing document and apply online at www.sheffield.co.nz. To apply by email, please attach your cover letter and CV and send to cvchc@sheffield.co.nz quoting 761604hrd. Applications close on 16 October 2016. Emails will be electronically acknowledged and further correspondence may be by email.
For more information please phone Louise Green on +64 3 353 4367 (DDI)
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Deputy Chief Executive –Learning & Teaching Services - Otago Polytechnic
16 October, 2016
Dunedin Based Strategic Leadership Opportunity
Lead Organisational Change & A Pedagogical Shift
Drive Innovation and Transform How Teaching Takes Place
Otago Polytechnic is recognised as one of New Zealand’s leading tertiary providers and is acknowledged as being a research-active polytechnic with a strong values-based culture of innovation and customer service. The newly developed ‘Fit for Future’ strategy heralds a change in leadership and organisational structure. A high performing strategic leadership team will lead a sharp focus on the key strategic imperatives, supported by Directors who have operational responsibility for newly aligned services and initiatives.
Reporting to the Chief Executive the five Deputy Chief Executives have a clear mandate to: Generate and deploy strategic and operational priorities; Drive a focus on business excellence, lifting organisational performance to the next level; Enhance innovation especially in the programme portfolio.
The Deputy Chief Executive – Learning & Teaching Services will have strategic oversight of research and will lead best in class services to provide an outstanding learner experience, ensuring top quality teaching programmes and highly capable academic staff. This role will lead an academic portfolio of Directors including; Learning and Teaching Development, Research, Internationalisation and Quality Services.
Successful candidates will be experienced and innovative tertiary educators, with a track record of successful professional leadership in at least one of the services which make up this portfolio. Of great interest will be ‘teaching and learning’ professionals who have learning design and experiential learning expertise. We want to change the way we do things; we want a future–focused thought leader who can transform how teaching takes place, so we will lead the tertiary sector in NZ. We seek a strategically, people and results focused professional who is appropriately qualified and up for the challenge to lead this exciting organisational change.
Candidates can download a Candidate Briefing document and apply online at www.sheffield.co.nz. To apply by email, please attach your cover letter and CV and send to cvchc@sheffield.co.nz quoting 845528hrd. Applications close on Sunday 16th October 2016. Emails will be electronically acknowledged and further correspondence may be by email.
For more information please phone Louise Green on +64 3 353 4367 (DDI).
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Australian International Education Conference 2016
18-21 October 2016
With 1078 delegates already registered to attend AIEC 2016 in Melbourne, this year’s conference will once again be 'the' place to be this October for the international education community.
AIEC 2016 will be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition on 18-21 October 2016.
Pre-conference workshops on Tuesday 18 October are limited to 45 delegates, and some are filling up fast.
To view the full program and to register, visit http://www.aiec.idp.com
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Call for papers: Special Issue of “Active Learning in Higher Education”
Future-Proofing Higher Education: towards the Citizen Scholar
Submission deadline: 1 February 2017
The future of higher education is in question on a number of levels. Firstly, no longer are universities the only producers of knowledge and information rather exist in an environment of increasing competition by alternative information providers. Further, higher education institutions are progressively being asked to justify their traditional place in society with increasing scrutiny raising questions about both research undertaken and the quality of graduates produced. As such, we need to fundamentally rethink how universities engage in teaching and learning, the skills, attributes and proficiencies of graduates as well as the connection between education and citizenship. In this way, higher education institutes should not only promote excellence in scholarship as part of the student journey, but a sense of engaged and empowered citizenship – establishing the Citizen Scholar.
We call for contributions that emphasise the social mission of higher education and that integrates a cross section of proficiencies and attributes that are essential for preparing our students for both contemporary challenges as well as a world dominated by uncertainty and disruption.
We invite contributions to this special issue that explore innovative pedagogical innovations that support the creation of the Citizen Scholar. Contributions may look at proficiencies, address practical methods used to promote skills or present a broader discussion of the issues raised by the challenges confronting universities.
If you have any queries about the nature/type of any contribution which might fit with this special issue, please contact
James Arvanitakis (j.arvanitakis@westernsydney.edu.au) or
David J Hornsby (david.hornsby@wits.ac.za).
When you are ready to submit your paper/article, please submit it to the Editor, in the normal way. (https://au.sagepub.com/en-gb/oce/journal/active-learning-higher-educatio...)
James Arvanitakis (j.arvanitakis@westernsydney.edu.au)
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ACER Educational Research Databases Updated
259 records have been added to the IDP Database of Research on International Education for May-August 2016. See the New Additions page at:
http://www.idp.com/researchdatabase
New reports, articles and theses are listed as discovered at http://twitter.com/IDPDRIE
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248 records have been added to the Blended, Online Learning and Distance Education (BOLDE) research bank for May-August 2016. See the New Additions page at:
New reports, articles and theses are listed as discovered at http://twitter.com/DistEdRes
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111 records have been added to Learning Ground:Indigenous Education Research Database for May-August 2016. See the New Additions page at:
New reports, articles and theses are listed as discovered at http://twitter.com/LearningGround
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Higher Education in the Headlines
Foreign levels hit new heights |JOHN ROSS | Australian Higher Eduction | 28 September, 2016
A sense of austerity in a career-conscious world is helping push foreign student numbers to record levels.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/foreign-student-levels-...
As Long Island U.’s Faculty Lockout Nears 2 Weeks, Both Sides Dig In | Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz | Chronicle of Higher Eduction | 23 September, 2016
The university’s Brooklyn campus locked out hundreds of faculty members in anticipation of a strike. Some professors say the administration will have a hard time regaining their trust.
http://www.chronicle.com/article/As-Long-Island-U-s-Faculty/237773
Karolinska Institute scandal: systemic failures or individual errors? | John Morgan | Times Higher Eduction | 22 September, 2016
Sweden’s leading university pledges to learn after government intervenes in Macchiarini affair
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/karolinska-institute-scandal-s...