Aims and Objectives

aims and objectives

This Project aims to create a sustainable network of leaders among Southeast Asian and UK higher education institutions in making universities more diverse and inclusive.

Leadership enhancement is crucial for leaders of higher education institutions and systems alike. Higher education leaders can benefit from a futuristic mindset as well as strategic, agile, and transformative thinking, especially when faced with increasing uncertainties, complexities, and global challenges. With the recognition that gender and related concepts of EDI are prerequisites for inclusive growth, fairness, transparency, and sustainability, ensuring gender EDI can enhance effective decision-making processes and encourage an institutional learning community across regions empowered to develop and leverage knowledge, skills, and networks to transform leadership and governance.

This sustainable network and the partnerships among university leaders of South East Asia and the UK will promote the exchange of contextual insights, knowledge, and good practices on Gender EDI in higher education. The results of this process will reinforce participating university leaders’ mutual understanding of the importance of gender EDI for higher education leadership and promote mutual respect for equity, diversity, and inclusivity. 

Project Objectives

  1. To enhance gender EDI in governance and institutional management of university leaders towards an equal and sustainable community of higher education (HE).
  2. To actively engage and provide platforms for leaders to share and reflect on gender equity, diversity, and inclusivity aspects of futuristic leadership and good governance in their respective institutions.
  3. To empower university leaders with innovative and leadership tools to embrace EDI in their policymaking, institutional operation and in building sustainable community of HE.
  4. To formulate plans or practical initiatives to mainstream gender and EDI in HE leadership operations.
  5. To strengthen university networks of gender and EDI in Southeast Asia.