introduction: a career development consists of jobs that a person passes in order to reach a professional goal. career development management results in job satisfaction, professional commitment and higher effectiveness. the purpose of this study was to determine different dimensions of career development among the staff of shiraz university of medical sciences.   methods: this study was a cros...

This article is a study of university vice chancellor (VC) and specifically the leadership qualities that articulate success. There broad agreement across higher education sector good central to performance chancellors (Cloete, Maassen, Bailey 2015; Macfarlane 2012; Jansen 2017; Scott et al. 2010). University vice-chancellor’s are measured against at range issues include determining institution...

Institutions 1 Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 2 Diabetic foot clinic, Department of Surgery, Ziekenhuisgroep Twente, Almelo and Hengelo, the Netherlands. 3 Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America. 4 CIDES / CINTESIS – Health Inform...

Our university system is, in many parts, in a state of disrepair... In almost half the districts [340] in the country, higher education enrolments are abysmally low, almost two-third of our universities and 90 per cent of our colleges are rated as below average on quality parameters... I am concerned that in many states university appointments, including that of vice-chancellors, have been poli...

This report presents an overview of the principal findings from a research project funded by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (Leadership Foundation). Its central theme is how the role of pro-vice-chancellor (PVC) is being configured within the contemporary UK university. The bulk of the field research – across 13 selected UK institutions – was conducted during 2005-06 and focused...