WiL alumni gathering in 2025: sustaining the momentum
A significant gathering of the Higher Education Leadership and Management’s (HELM’s) Women in Leadership (WiL) alumni is set for early 2025, and is envisioned ...
Growing a movement: Women in Leadership (WiL)
The final session of the 2024 Women in Leadership (WiL) programme on 1 November 2024 began with a seemingly simple but profoundly symbolic activity: ...
Embracing HELM’s Women in Leadership programme became a defining moment for alumni
With less than three years in operation and now in its third cohort, the Women in Leadership (WiL), a flagship of the Higher Education ...
African, Asian, and Australian deans’ standpoints on research impact seem to converge
The recent Higher Education Leadership and Management (HELM) Summit 2022 included a session where three universities’ deans from three different time zones discussed the ...
Organisational development in universities; A case study on CUT’s repositioning of its Welkom campus provides invaluable lessons
The Central University of Technology (CUT) in the Free State is changing the perceived stepchild status of its Welkom campus to an integral part ...
Good, rather than skilled human beings make better university leaders, Professor André Keet says
When good people get into executive leadership positions in universities, it erodes their goodness and their capacity for self-awareness flies out the window. Professor ...
Global university leaders exchange leadership attributes, challenges and opportunities
How can universities be a driving force for change in broader society and what role should their leaders play in our ever developing world? ...
Leadership in higher education is often about reaching out and listening to people
Professor Jonathan Jansen says one important lesson he has learnt from his leadership experience at all levels in higher education – is that you ...
How to develop and nurture academic leaders at our universities
Academic leadership is one of the most important foundations for success in our universities. However, leadership and management in academia presents its own challenges ...
University leaders could benefit from a global perspective
It is imperative that leaders in higher education have a global perspective beyond their national borders and building networks and communities of leaders is ...