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11.2 A Context of Perpetual Change

It has been argued that the challenges to higher education leadership
have increased as society and institutions have become ever more
complex. Contributing to increasing complexity is a range of influences
from within and outside the academy. The following analysis
illuminates the broad categories of change and their key features, and
cites the origin of each. Each change dynamic is described and its
influence stated briefly.

SOCIAL PRESSURES

Demographic

shifts

The rise of new demographic

groupings/stakeholders/students

(digital natives/Generation Z/)

will have an impact on academic

and enrolment planning. The nature

of the student/stakeholder – age,

values, learning style, geographic

location, mobility – will have a

significant influence on the

administration of the university.

AIM (2014)

Hajkowicz,

Reeson,

Rudd et al.

(2016)

Changing Student

Expectations

Student attitudes will change

towards ‘value for money’ and

perceived quality propositions.

Requires flexibility and

responsiveness to students’ needs

and demands. Evolvement of the

view of the ‘student as consumer’

and the university as ‘service

provider’.

Ernst &

Young (2012)