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Steering universities through social transformation
In Europe, there is little provision of leadership development schemes in higher education. Yet, given the pace and intensity of transformations in our societies and invariably in our universities, institutional leadership is a game-changer, even more so during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The European Union-funded NEWLEAD project focuses on enhancing the capacity of higher education institutions and their leaders to steer change and tackle the complex topics on the institutional transformation agenda.
Today more than ever, universities are expected to fulfil multiple and increasingly challenging roles. This is understandably so, given the changing circumstances and needs of our communities that range from labour market requirements and sustainability pressures to imminent public health concerns – to name but a few.
Jennifer Hunt
Women face a ‘glass ceiling’ effect during their careers in many sectors, and science is no exception. A recent Nature’s Editorial (claims that “[i]n the United States and Europe around half of those who gain doctoral degrees in science and engineering are female – but barely one-fifth of full professors are women” (Nature Editorial 2013). Although it occurs – even prevails – in many sectors, the existence of a glass ceiling for women in science is particularly jarring since, as claimed by Robert Merton, science should follow the norm of universalism according to which all scientists are judged objectively on the base of their scientific merits, regardless of their “personal or social attributes” (Merton 1942). The evidence of inequality in female and male scientists’ careers has urged many scholars to study whether observing few female scientists in highly ranked positions results from gender discrimination in the promotion or differences in prod
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