Programme A: Transformational Deanship Programme

Strategic Purpose

Universities transform when their academic leaders do. This programme equips deans and senior academic leaders with the strategic capability, governance acumen, and change leadership skills needed to drive meaningful institutional reform — and to sustain it.

Who It Is For

  • Deans and associate deans
  • Department heads and academic directors
  • Senior faculty leaders and vice-rectors (academic portfolio)
  • Institutional leadership teams undertaking planned transformation

Institutional Value 

Institutions participating in this programme build internal leadership capacity to lead accreditation processes, restructure academic systems, improve faculty performance frameworks, and align institutional strategy with global benchmarks — without dependence on continued external support.

Key Learning Outcomes

  • Lead faculty performance systems strategically and with institutional coherence
  • Design and implement transformation roadmaps aligned with accreditation and quality expectations
  • Strengthen governance structures and academic decision-making processes
  • Manage institutional change initiatives from design through to embedding

Delivery Model 

  • Cohort-based
  • Online or hybrid
  • Institutional customisation available
  • Duration: 6 months

Recognition

Certificate of Completion from GIE-Ed — Transformational Deanship Programme

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