Enhancing Educational Leadership in Transnational Higher Education

Abstract

In every industry and field, and at every institutional level, good leadership is essential. Equally significant is the remit a leader is tasked with fulfilling, and the point in time at which this is expected and the situation one must work within, alongside the context. This all makes defining good leadership and good leaders fraught with difficulty, as what may work well in one situation, may not work so well in another. For transnational higher education, the situation is complicated further because providers can vary in terms of location, size, complexity, context, and remit. It is also challenging because of the ongoing COVID pandemic. Consequently, this chapter will briefly introduce transnational higher education, along with the idea of what successful and effective leadership constitutes. It will then go on to consider different leadership styles before examining a specific transnational higher education provider and discussing some of the leadership approaches and features that have been evidenced in a specific academic school at this institution over the past decade.