In higher education, greater emphasis is being placed on innovation, improving the quality of teaching and learning, the measurement of performance and learning outcomes, access and regional competitiveness. The OECD programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) brings together higher education institutions and governments to share best practices, ideas and potential models to meet these challenges through networks, studies and research.

1. The OECD’s
Programme on
Institutional
Management in
Higher Education
07/10/2011

2. Fast facts on OECD
• Established 1961
• Headquarters: Paris
• OECD Centres: Berlin, Mexico City,
Tokyo, Washington
• Members: 34
• Secretary-General: Angel Gurría
• Secretariat staff: 2 500
• Annual budget: 320 € million (2009)
• Nearly 300 expert committees and working groups

3. What is the OECD?
• The OECD is the global organisation that drives better
policies for better lives
• It analyses, measures and compares to give advice that
helps raise living standards
• Aims for a stronger, cleaner, fairer world:
– sustainability and prosperity
– integrity and respect for the environment
– equal access to opportunity and its benefits

4. Better lives from every angle
Fairer Development
assistance
Migration Education
Healthcare
Pensions
Employment
Competition Corruption
Trade Governance Tax
evasion
Entrepreneurship
Climate
Fiscal policy
change
Innovation
Finance
Stronger
Agriculture Energy
Cleaner

5. OECD’s Directorate for Education
ETP Education and
Training Policy
EMI Education
Management and
NME Programme for Infrastructure:
Co-operation with Non- • IMHE (Institutional
Member Economies Management in Higher
Education)
• CELE (Centre for Effective
Learning Environments)
CERI Centre for
IA Indicators and
Educational Research
Analysis
and Innovation

6. What is IMHE?
A network of 255 members from 53
countries
HEIs, government and agencies
Policy analyses and services to members
An institutional voice within OECD

7. What is IMHE’s mission?
To improve higher education by providing
strategic analysis on institutional
development in the context of national
policy and global trends

8. What are the benefits of IMHE membership?

9. IMHE main activities
Assessing Higher
Education Learning
Outcomes: Feasibility
study
Institutions in the Supporting
Emerging Global Quality of Teaching
Market for HE in HE
Higher Education in
Regional and City
Development

10. AHELO at a glance
To evaluate whether reliable cross-national assessments of HE
Goal? learning outcomes are scientifically possible and whether their
implementation is feasible.
What? A research approach to provide a proof of concept and practicality.
Why? Outcomes used to assist countries to decide on the next steps.
Phase 1 - Development of tools: January 2010 to June 2011
When?
Phase 2 - Implementation: March 2011 to December 2012
Data will be collected from a targeted population of students who are
Who?
near, but before, the end of their first 3-4 year degree.
Broad frameworks that guide international expert committees charged
How? with instrument development in the assessment areas.

11. AHELO: The aims
Test the science of the assessment
• Whether it is possible to devise an assessment, as
well as associated contextual data, that enables
reliable statements to be made about the
performance/effectiveness of learning in
institutions of very different types and in countries
with different cultures and languages
Test the practicality of implementation
• Whether it is possible to motivate institutions and
students to take part in such an assessment and
find solutions to implement such an assessment

12. AHELO: Assessing scientific feasibility
Questions such as :
 Is it possible to develop instruments to capture learning outcomes
that are perceived as valid in diverse national and institutional
contexts?
 Do the test items perform as expected and do the test results meet
pre-defined psychometric standards of validity and reliability?
 Is it possible to score higher-order types of items consistently across
countries?
 Is it possible to capture information on teaching and learning
contexts that contribute to explaining differences in student
performance?

13. AHELO: Assessing practical feasibility
Questions such as :
 How effective are strategies implemented at national/institutional
level to secure institutional and student cooperation?
 Can students be motivated to take part in such an assessment and
take it seriously?
 To what extent does the implementation of the feasibility study
assessments bring benefits to participating HEIs?
 To what extent does the implementation of the feasibility study
contribute to demonstrating its value for the improvement of
teaching and building support for an AHELO?

14. AHELO: 2 phases
Jan 2010-
June 2011
Frameworks
Generic
Economics Engineering
Phase 1 - Skills
Framework Framework
Initial proof Framework
of concept Instrument
development &
small-scale Generic
Economics Engineering
validation Skills
Instrument Instrument
Instrument
Mar 2011-
Dec 2012
Contextual dimension surveys
Phase 2 -
Scientific Project management,
feasibility Implementation survey operations and
& proof of analyses of results
practicality

15. Supporting Quality Teaching
• Phase 1: Dec 2007 – June 2009
Effectiveness of institutional policies and
initiatives aimed at enhancing the quality of
teaching (completed).
• Lessons learned:
1. Institutional commitment is crucial
2. Synergies between technology, human resources, learning facilities
and student learning support policies stimulate quality teaching.
3. Pioneering innovative evaluation approaches are necessary to
further demonstrate the correlation between teaching and learning

16. Supporting Quality Teaching
• Phase 2: July 2009 – Dec 2011
Explores the institutional experiences and
approaches
• Content:
– Reflective paper for the institution
– International cross-analysis
– What Works Conference (5-6 December 2011)

17. Participating institutions (Oct. 2011)
Universidade Higher
Católica Laurea Eötvös
School of
Portuguesa University Loránd Univ.
Economics
(Portugal) (Finland) (Hungary)
(Russia)
Université
Laval (Canada)
UNAM
(Mexico)
Veracruz
University
(Mexico)
State University of
Campinas –
UNICAMP (Brazil)
Cape Peninsula Open University University Catania
Univ. of Technology of Catalonia (Italy)
(South Africa) (Spain)

18. The Reviews of Higher Education in
Regional and City Development
OECD’s vehicle to mobilise higher education
for economic, social and cultural
development of their cities and regions and
to enhance regional partnership building:

19. Regions under review
2005 - 2007 2010 - 2012
2008 - 2011 Kazan 2007 with World Bank

20. What is being reviewed?
National and regional context
Partnership building
The OECD reviews draw
Regional
together HEIs and public capacity
and private agencies to building
identify strategic goals and
to work towards them.
Social and
Regional
cultural HEIs innovation
development
Importance of context
The reviews take account
of different national and Human
capital and
regional contexts within skills
which the HEIs operate. development
Focus of analysis of the OECD review

21. Global market for HE
Institutions
in the • Managing
Emerging internationalisation
• Innovation, HE and
Global research for
development
Market for
HE

22. Managing Internationalisation
New Activity
Unlock the potential of governments and universities to
Goal? internationalise by opening up and documenting the dialogue between
these two actors
Examine internationalisation strategies synergies and discrepancies
What?
within institutions and governments
About? Policies, strategies, off shore campuses, ethics and values, intellectual
property, international network, ICTs…
How? 10 Online focus groups, 3 conferences, benchmarking…

23. Innovation, HE and research for
Development (IHERD)
Expected results:
•Strengthening the Innovation policy
policy relevance of
research
•Better informed policy HE policy and
Research
Institutional
making management
Policy
•Increased policy
coherence
Focus of
IHERD

24. Forthcoming Conferences
17-18 October 2011
Collaboration between Vocational and University Education:
Building Partnerships for Regional Development
5-6 December 2011
Managing Quality Teaching in Higher Education
www.oecd.org/edu/imhe/whatworks
15-16 December 2011
Conference: Strategic Management of Internationalisation in
Higher Education
http://congresslund.com/smoi
17-19 September 2012
Attaining and Sustaining Mass Higher Education, Paris,
France
www.oecd.org/edu/imhe/generalconference

25. How to join?
1 www.oecd.org/edu/imhe/join
2 Approval by GB
3 Membership fee 3450€. Special
rate 2150€ for the first 2 years.
4 Welcome to IMHE!

26. Thank you
www.oecd.org/edu/imhe
or contact
imhe@oecd.org