Title:
The university leadership challenge – from herding cats to lining up lions
Author:
Paul Greatrix, Registrar at The University of Nottingham
Published:
WONKHE, 29 June 2020
https://wonkhe.com/blogs/the-university-leadership-challenge-from-herding-cats-to-lining-up-lions/
From the article:
Vice chancellors have an extraordinarily difficult job to do at the best of times but with the current pandemic this has made matters massively challenging indeed. And, as noted here before, everyone across universities is trying to do the right thing. But vice chancellors are not wholly free to do what they wish – the governing body, which determines the VC’s objectives from year to year, will want to be assured the university is operating effectively and efficiently and to ensure (among other things) that their overall financial and stewardship responsibilities are being exercised properly. Governors and vice chancellors have to think beyond survival and consider the university’s success in the long term.