December 2001
Evaluation of the HEFCE Fund for the Development of
Good Management Practice
On behalf of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, Universitas
has completed the evaluation of the Council's Fund for the Development
of Good Management Practice. The first tranche of the Fund, which was the
subject of our evaluation, allocated £4.4m to universities and colleges
for 31 projects.
December 2001
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Support for Higher Education Reform
As part of our continuing involvement in the EC Phare "TAER" education reform project in Bosnia-Herzegovina, John Allen and Barbara Anderson undertook in November/December a series of workshops and advisory visits for universities throughout the country, covering the topics of human resource management and external relations.
The TAER project is managed by CfBT.
November 2001
Rwanda: Planning Support to the Kigali Institute of
Science, Technology and Management
John Farrant writes:
Rwanda is one of the poorest countries in the world. Subject to drought
and famine, and with a high incidence of parasitic diseases, it has one
of the highest population densities in Africa and a high birth rate. The
Belgian colonial administration left it with negligible infrastructure
and its plight was compounded by the 1994 ethnic massacres and mass exodus,
particularly of the educated and skilled.
In the process of national reconciliation and reconstruction, the Government has ascribed a leading role to KIST, the Kigali Institute of Science, Technology and Management. Its growth has been explosive: from the feasibility study by German experts in mid-1997, to launch in November 1997 with 209 students and 32 staff, to today’s community of 1500 full-time and 1300 part-time students and 350 staff. However, with the ending of start-up funding from UNDP, the Institute has had to take stock and consolidate - and clarify its own mission and goals.
I was in Rwanda in October/November 2001 to help KIST prepare its own strategic plan. Given fairly well-defined academic objectives, my support focussed on establishing a basic quantitative framework, for projecting student numbers, estimating the academic staff required, and building financial projections which can then be used in negotiations for funding with Government and aid agencies.
This task has drawn on my earlier work for UNESCO and the Association
of African Universities, published (with J. Fielden) as Strategic planning
in African universities, UNESCO New Papers on Higher Education: Studies
and Research, 12 (1996), and (with L. M. Afonso) 'Strategic planning in
African universities: how relevant are Northern models?', Higher Education
Policy, 10 (1) (1997).
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