UNESCO Chair in Governance and
Management of Higher Education
University of Zagreb
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF STAFF AND FACULTY
DEVELOPMENT A GLANCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB
prof.dr. Vlasta Vizek Vidović
SCM TEMPUS - SMSDU - Zagreb, November, 2004.
Topics
• University of Zagreb portrait
• SWOT analysis of staff/faculty
development
• Examples of good practice at UZ
• Why SMSDU?
SCM TEMPUS - SMSDU - Zagreb, November, 2004.
University of Zagreb portrait 2002-2003
• founded in 1669 by Leopold I Habsburg
• the oldest Croatian and South-East European
university
Constituents:
– 28 faculties
– 3 art academies
– teacher’s academy
– university studies/centres
– university CIT centre
– student centre
SCM TEMPUS - SMSDU - Zagreb, November, 2004.
University of Zagreb portrait 2002-2003
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52.000 enrolled students (54% females)
130 BA and 80 graduate study programmes
cca 6,700 students awarded BA degrees
cca 600 M.Sc. and 270 Ph.D.
cca 5,100 faculty and 2,300 administrative staff
cca 100 foreign students
50% of total yearly research output in Croatia
bilateral agreements with 45 universities from Australia,
N & S America and Europe
SCM TEMPUS - SMSDU - Zagreb, November, 2004.
SWOT analysis of staff/faculty development at UZ
STRENGTHS
• Recognition of the importance of the S/F development
as a part of university development strategy
(“Breakthrough 2001”, Tempus- QUASYS)
• Independent efforts of some faculties to start their own
teacher training courses
• Introduction concepts of institutional quality culture
and accountability
• Support of staff/faculty development in the area of CIT
(librarians, administration, young researches)
SCM TEMPUS - SMSDU - Zagreb, November, 2004.
SWOT analysis continued
WEAKNESSES
• Still dominant traditional beliefs about teaching as
transmission of knowledge
• Ecellence in teaching and/or professional competence
not tied to the promotion scheme
• Students’ previous experience as passive learners
• Lack of financial and human resources to support
infrastructure needed for systematic staff/faculty
development
SCM TEMPUS - SMSDU - Zagreb, November, 2004.
SWOT analysis continued
OPPORTUNITIES
• Worldwide changes in the approaches to
learning/teaching in HED
• Growing body of research data on different aspects of
learning/teaching in HED
• Recognition of international documents on continuos
education and life-long learning
• Rectors’ conference recognition of the importance of
university teacher training in new approaches to
teaching and learning
SCM TEMPUS - SMSDU - Zagreb, November, 2004.
SWOT analysis continued
THREATS
• Inability to approach all EU programs supporting
the transformation of European area of higher
education
• Lack of clear national strategy in the domain of
higher education
• Prevailing general view of higher education as a
consumption and not an investment
• Insufficient financing from the state budget of the
Croatian reform of higher education
SCM TEMPUS - SMSDU - Zagreb, November, 2004.
Program: READING AND WRITING FOR CRITICAL
THINKING ACROSS CURRICULUM IN HED
Provider: NGO Forum for the freedom of education
Financial support: from OSI to self-supporting
Accreditation: International Reading Association
Format: 4 workshops - total 60 hours
Topics:
1. Active learning and ERR teaching framework
2. Reading, writing and discussion for critical thinking
3. Cooperative and experiential learning
4. Planning and assessment in higher education
Beneficiaries: 110 university teachers from Zagreb, Zadar, Rijeka
SCM TEMPUS - SMSDU - Zagreb, November, 2004.
Assumptions underlying ALCT program
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Enhancing student competences, developing
work related skills
Using student experience as a learning resource
Encouraging active and cooperative learning
Promoting students’ responsibility for learning
Engaging also with student values, feelings and
motives
Fostering open, flexible and outcome-based
assessment
SCM TEMPUS - SMSDU - Zagreb, November, 2004.
Education for CIT
Providers: CARNET and SRCE
Financial support: MZOS and self-supporting
Types of programmes:
• European Computer Driving License – SRCE
• EDUPOINT – Carnet
• E-academy – Carnet
• Training for researchers
Topics: Introductory computer use, Internet courses; elearning; IT administrators training; scientific database
searching
Beneficiaries: Faculty, administration, students, IT staff
SCM TEMPUS - SMSDU - Zagreb, November, 2004.
Medical School Teachers training programme
Provider: Harvard Medical International
Financial support: MZOS, Faculty of Medicine
Types of programmes:
• curriculum development workshops, seminars, trainings
• consultations
Topics: raising curriculum development awareness, tools
for curriculum development, international curriculum
experience
Beneficiaries: Faculty, management
SCM TEMPUS - SMSDU - Zagreb, November, 2004.
Why SMSDU?
• Formulate binding strategic document regarding staff/faculty
development policy at the participating universities
• Define conditions for the accreditation of staff/faculty
development programs
• Provide outline of minimal requirements for the promotion of
staff and faculty based on CPD credits
• Outline organizational structure of the staff/faculty development
unit & educational consultancy service at universities
• Promote the concept of the advanced postgraduate certification
programs for educators and trainers (MEd, DBA in HED)
• Initiate applied research projects in educational developments
in HED
SCM TEMPUS - SMSDU - Zagreb, November, 2004.