Training Workshops

The ACU's Gender Programme workshops concentrate on training cadres of women to take the work forward in their own institutions/regions, rather than providing management development training per se.

The aims and objectives of the Training the Trainers workshops are:

1. to equip key women with the training to empower their academic and administrative colleagues with the confidence and competence to bid for, assume and sustain positions of leadership and management in their universities
2. to train trainers so that universities will have a group of women facilitators equipped with the skills required for conducting training programmes in their own and across other institutions
3. to provide each participant with a full set of training modules which include: how to run a workshop for senior women, how to manage personal and professional roles, research, governance, mentoring, developing management skills, academic leadership and women's studies as a catalyst for change
4. to evaluate and adapt, for the local context, the leadership and management training materials
   
5. to explore the relationship between process and content when planning training programmes for women in leadership and management in higher education
6. to promote an understanding of how women professionals learn and develop
7. to provide the theoretical underpinning that will support development programmes in the fields addressed by the training modules 
   
8. to adapt and plan the outline and materials for a training programme to be delivered in their own country/institution
9. to develop networks to sustain management and development initiatives in their own universities.

Training the Trainers and Key Trainers workshops have been held – mostly by invitation – in a wide variety of countries:

• Great Missenden, UK (March 2009) (run in collaboration with the Institute of Education, University of London)
• Francistown, Botswana (June 2008)
  
• Islamabad, Pakistan (November 2007) (Developing a Regional Group of Key Trainers)
• Jangwani, Tanzania (January 2007) (Developing a Regional Group of Key Trainers)
• Bagamoyo, Tanzania (January 2006)
• Entebbe, Uganda (August 2005)
• Lokoja, Nigeria (October 2004)
• Rawalpindi, Pakistan (November 2002)
• Nairobi, Kenya (June 2002)  (Read a report of the workshop)
• Barbados (January 2000)
• Lagos, Nigeria (November 1999)

Hitherto, the Programme's workshops had focused purely on enhancing the management skills of senior women academics and administrators in higher education. A series of combined ACU-CHESS workshops was held in:

• Kandy, Sri Lanka (July 1999)
• Malacca, Malaysia (February 1999)
• New Delhi, India (1998)
• Colombo, Sri Lanka (1997)
• Cape Town, South Africa (1996)
• Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (1995)
• Suva, Fiji (1994)
• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1991)

while the very first ACU "Women's Programme" workshops took place in:

• The Gambia (1992)
• Botswana (1991)
• Jamaica (1990)
• Bombay, India (1986 and 1988).

For further information, please contact:  d.garland@acu.ac.uk