Hosted by AKEPT (Higher Education Leadership Academy Malaysia) in partnership with the Advance HE (formerly Leadership Foundation for Higher Education) UK
Overview: This two-day event, took place in 2009 and provided a unique opportunity for senior leaders from UK and Malaysian higher education institutions to meet and exchange experience on how they are responding to the short-term challenges of leading and managing institutions in the context of a global economic recession as well as the longer-term development of their institutions towards ‘world-class excellence’ which is an aspiration for both countries.
Programme: The event contained a mix of distinguished speakers, facilitated discussions and parallel sessions on specific themes, with a premium placed on delegate interactions and exchange of experience. The University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus, kindly agreed to host a visit to its campus for delegates, and in addition, delegates who wished to stay on in Kuala Lumpur, had the opportunity to sign up for The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education’s Global Forum on Cross-Border Higher Education: 'Global Connections-Local Impacts', a large-scale international conference on the major issues, policies and practices facing cross-border higher education. The conference included presenters and delegates from institutions, governments and policy agencies around the world and is also jointly organised with the University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus.
Together, these three activities provided senior leaders with the chance - in a short and concentrated period of time - to gain up-to-date and topical insights and practical examples of how leaders in other countries are responding to the global challenges facing institutions. There was also the potential to develop a range of valuable networks for building future international partnerships and other collaborative ventures.
If you would like to be kept informed about future Malaysia/UK programmes please email your details to enquiries@advance-he.ac.uk