Directorate - General of Planning and Development (MOHE)

Call for Papers

in a Symposium on Administrative Modernisation in the

Higher Education Institutions in Palestine

Best Eastern Hotel (Ramallah) November 23 - 2000

Objectives:

Introducing the top administrative staff at the PHEI to the modern management methods used in the field of higher education and their application on all managerial levels.

Exchanging experiences, methods and innovations in the filed of higher education management.

Assisting the PHEI administration in updating and developing their administrative methods in order to meet the challenge Scientific and technology threats.

Improving the internal work circumstances and solving the managerial problems so as to reach the qualitative levels of academic achievements.

Promoting the PHEI administrative performance to get ahead the international HEI.

 

Themes:

1- Patterns of current management at the Palestinian higher education institutions.

a: Administrative performance at the Palestinian higher education institutions.

b: Administrative problems at the Palestinian higher education institutions.

2: Administrative Development Strategies at the Palestinian Higher Education Institutions.

a: Strategic planning and its role in administrative modernisation at the Palestinian higher education institutions.

3- International models and patterns for modern management at higher education institutions.

4: The importance of information technology and communication networks( ITC) in the administrative modernisation at the Palestinian higher education institutions.

5: Administrative modernisation at scientific research and postgraduate studies at the Palestinian higher education institutions.

6: Updating the performance of various administrations at the Palestinian higher education institutions (human resources management, registration and students’ affairs, financial management, regulations and laws, humanitarian relationships, information system, community services.)

7: Modernising the organisational structures of the Palestinian higher education institutions.

8: Modernising both assessment and promotion at the Palestinian higher education institutions.

 

Participation:

The Ministry of Higher Education invites university presidents, instructors, researchers, experts as well as deans of the colleges to submit papers or researches on the themes of the seminar in harmony with the following conditions:

1- An abstract should be submitted to the co-ordinator of the Symposium Dr. Wael Al-Qadi or by E-mail  waelq@mhe.planet.edu     by 15/9/2000.

2- The abstract should not exceed a single A4 page and should include the title of the paper, the name and full address of the author.

3- The full text paper should be submitted in three copies to the presidency of the symposium by 15/10/2000. The paper should not exceed 20 printed A4 pages.

For more information and Inquiry, please do not hesitate to contact:

The Co-ordinator of the Symposium

Dr. Wael Al-Qadi/ Director General of Planning and Development

Ministry of Higher Education

PO.Box 17360 Jerusalem. Palestine

Tel: 02-2982620, 02- 2982623

Mobile: 052- 209942

Fax: 02- 2954518

E-mail: waelq@mhe.planet.edu