Managing successful universities - Michael Shattock

"Michael Shattock is without doubt Britain's leading authority on the dangerously neglected subject of university management ... For some his book will not make comfortable reading."

Professor Geoffrey Alderman, Vice-President, American InterContinental University, London

This book defines good management in a university context and how it can contribute to university success. It emphasizes the holistic characteristics of university management, the need to be outward looking and entrepreneurial in management style, the importance of maintaining a strong academic/administrative partnership and a continuous dialogue between the centre and academic departments, and the preservation of a self-directed institutional autonomy. It draws on the literature of management in the private sector as well as from higher education, and from the experience of the author. Managing Successful Universities demonstrates how successful universities utilise the market to reinforce academic excellence.