As part of our Higher Education for Employability programme, we have organized a live webinar on the topic of ‘Creating the conditions for good higher education governance'.
The webinar is a joint event of the British Council, Ministry of higher and secondary specialized education of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Higher Education Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It brings together higher education professionals and academics from the UK and Uzbekistan so we could exchange knowledge and ideas.
Webinar outline:
Good governance creates confidence and trust for stakeholders by ensuring that an organisation is achieving what it should, in the ways that it should. Increasingly governance is concerned not only with financial sustainability and regulatory compliance, but value creation in the broadest sense; these areas are inherently interconnected. A government, regulator and higher education institution all have a respective role to play in creating the conditions for a system of effective governance that achieves all of these things.
Drawing on case-study experience of a changing higher education regulatory landscape in Great Britain since 2018, this session considers a) the hallmarks of effective governance in HE and b) the different levers governments, regulators and institutions have to drive for continuous improvement. In doing so, we highlight the imperative of high-quality leadership and diversity and inclusion to sustain a governance culture which is fit-for-purpose.
The session was led by:
Victoria Holbrook, Assistant Director - Governance at Advance HE and a former senior leader at England’s higher education government body (and then regulator) where she was responsible for universities’ compliance and resolved many governance and assurance issues.
Alison Johns, Chief Executive – Advance HE and formerly the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. Previously, she led the leadership, governance and management policy team at England’s higher education government body where she met Victoria.
The webinar is in English with the translation into Russian.