A ten-week live-online programme on governance, strategy, finance, and academic administration for university and college leaders.
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Duration
10 weeks
Level
Advanced
Format
Live Online
Language
English
Certificate
Verified Digital
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$1,500
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In this programme
✓10 live virtual seminars (recorded)
✓Sector case-study readings each week
✓Peer learning circles
✓Capstone institutional strategy brief
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Overview
What You Will Learn
Designed for deans, registrars, directors, and senior administrators, this programme builds the strategic and operational capabilities needed to lead higher-education institutions through funding pressure, regulation, and rising student expectations.
Ten weekly live seminars combine sector cases, peer dialogue, and a strategy project applied to your own institution.
✓Lead institutional strategy and planning
✓Navigate HE governance and regulation
✓Manage budgets, income diversification, and risk
✓Lead academic quality and the student experience
✓Drive partnerships, internationalisation, and growth
✓Develop an institutional strategy brief
Who this programme is for
Deans and associate deans
Registrars and academic administrators
Directors of professional services
Heads of school and faculty
Aspiring senior leaders in HE
Higher-education policy officers
Included
This Programme Includes
◆10 live virtual seminars (recorded)
◆Sector case-study readings each week
◆Peer learning circles
◆Capstone institutional strategy brief
◆12 months platform access
◆Verified digital certificate
Curriculum
Programme Outline
10 modules · 30 lessons · 10 weeks
The programme is structured across 10 modules, each covering one stage of learning with live sessions, self-paced content, and a practical assignment.
Forces shaping the modern institution.
Sector trendsFunding modelsMassification
Councils, senates, and regulatory frameworks.
Governance structuresRegulationAcademic freedom
Setting institutional direction.
Strategic planningMission & positioningKPIs
Budgets, income diversification, and risk.
HE financeIncome diversificationRisk management
Assuring and enhancing quality.
Quality assuranceAccreditationProgramme review
Recruitment, retention, and success.
AdmissionsRetentionStudent services
Leading research and knowledge exchange.
Research strategyGrants & impactIndustry links
Growth through collaboration.
PartnershipsInternationalisationBranch campuses
Modernising services and systems.
Digital strategyProcess improvementEstates
An institutional strategy brief.
Brief designCostingPresentation
Programme facilitator
Meet Your Instructor
PDM
Prof. Daniel Mensah
Senior Fellow, Higher Education · ARPS Institute
65 programmes on ARPS Institute · Education & Higher Education Leadership