On International Women’s Day 2017, it is sobering to acknowledge that still, just a fifth of UK higher education institutions are headed by a female vice-chancellor. Long hours“Everyone I know who has done extremely well in higher education has at some point done very long hours: 80-100 hours a week. It’s a problem that has been noted when universities ask executive search agencies to create shortlists for senior roles. “I think we need to be much more flexible in our ideas about what senior leadership looks like,” Wareing says. The latter takes longer, and I suspect doesn’t look like leadership to some people.”A 2014 report, Gender and Higher Education Leadership by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, which runs the women-only Aurora leadership programme, backs this view.

Source: The Guardian March 08, 2017 09:56 UTC