Improving Educational Leadership and Management (2011 - 2012)
Duration of the project: 1 May 2011–31 December 2012
Financier: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland, HEI ICI programme
Project Manager: Irmeli Maunonen-Eskelinen
The HEI-ICI project “Improving the Educational Leadership and Management Capacity of Quang Tri Teacher Training College” was implemented with good results.
Partners:
- JAMK University of Applied Sciences (JAMK), Teacher Education College (TEC), coordinating institution
- HAMK University of Applied Sciences (HAMK), Teacher Education College (TEC)
- Quang Tri Teacher Training College (QTTTC), The main beneficiary organisation
- Hue University College of Education (HUCE)
The purpose of the project
QTTTC has acquired the necessary educational management and leadership skills to, in a self-directive way, respond to the challenges the policy –level higher education sector renovation causes in Vietnam.
Result I:
QTTTC will have a strengthened credit-based curriculum management system and related quality assurance tools in place.
Result II:
QTTTC will have teaching staff that is acquainted with new pedagogical methods supporting credit-based curriculum implementation.
The main activities
- A baseline study (June–September 2011)
- Orientation workshop (September 2011)
- Training programmes (September 2011–October 2012)
- Educational Management Programme for the admin staff
- Training of Trainers
- Programme for the Teaching Staff
- External Evaluation (June–October 2012)
- Final Seminar (December 2012)
Publication:
The project published a book about the development actions. The teachers and managers of QTTTC wrote articles about the changes and pilots that they implemented during the project. The book contains 65 development cases, and the total number of pages is 326.