Chinese Demand for HE Management Books
A major series of books co-edited by Professor David Warner, Vice-Chancellor of Swansea Metropolitan University, has been snapped up for the Chinese Market.
The Managing Universities and Colleges series comprises sixteen volumes and covers almost every aspect of University life, from ‘Managing Strategy’ to ‘Managing Students’ and ‘Managing Research’. They are published by the University Press and will be translated into Chinese over the next couple of years.
Professor Warner commented: “For some years I have been teaching on programmes at Oxford University for senior Chinese university staff. They have expressed great interest in the content of these books and clearly have taken the message home. Sadly, I am unable to read Chinese myself, but will be helping with the translation work by providing alternative English phrases when there is not an obvious one-to-one solution.”
Professor Warner is Wales’ longest serving Vice-Chancellor, taking charge of the institution in 1998. He has previously worked in a school, an FE college and at the Universities of Warwick, East Anglia and as Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Birmingham City University. He is also the Deputy Chair of Higher Education Wales, which is part of Universities UK, and Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre for Higher Education.
Professor Warner has written or edited some ten books on aspects of higher education management including Human Resource Management in Higher and Further Education; How to Manage a Merger … or Avoid One; Higher Education Management: the key elements; The State of UK Higher Education; Higher Education Law and Managing Crisis.
He has been involved in all aspects of HE management development for a number of years and has successfully undertaken a wide range of consultancies in the UK, currently working, under the auspices of the Leadership Foundation, at the University of Manchester.
In addition, Professor Warner has undertaken a number of international consultancies, the most recent being for universities in Namibia, Romania, Belarus and Queensland, Australia.
Professor Warner was recently awarded a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list for services to local and national higher education.