The 17th iteration of the China Scholarship Council: Administrators’ Course will be held on 17 September to 7 December. The upcoming cohort is composed of 36 middle to top level administrators and will add to more than 400 Vice-chancellors, deans, department heads, senior administrators and academics who have participated in this long-running Program since 2003.

The three-month Program is sponsored by the China Scholarship Council(CSC) as well as individual Universities from various regions of China. The Program aims to build the capacity of university administrators to work within the challenging environment of evolving Chinese government policy towards its universities that is aimed at pushing around 100 of the top Chinese Universities into the World’s Top 500 Universities Rankings within the next two decades.

The Crawford School Executive Education (CSEE) Program will expose participants to Australian best practice in managing tertiary institutions with a focus on building research and teaching excellence, strategic multi-modal marketing technologies and brand management, HR practices, revenue stream diversification through business sponsorships, alumni foundations, bequests and philanthropy, trends in research and teaching management practices, changing paradigms in pedagogical philosophy, the global trend towards client centred educational practices such as digital/online or distance education methodologies and other client-orientated delivery practices, course evaluations and feedback as well as pastoral care and counselling services.

Participants will be introduced to participating ANU departments and their administrative and academic staff as well as undertake study visits to Universities Australia, Charles Sturt University, the Goulburn Police College, ADFA, TAFE and CIT and local schools.