The 6th IIEP-SEAMEO RIHED Workshop on Institutional Restructuring in Higher Education
and Educational Trip to Indonesia
18 – 25 July 2010

Institutional restructuring is defined as changes in both the governance and management of institutions. Governance involves structures and processes of decision-making, whereas management implies the implementation of decisions. Making and implementing decisions might entail, therefore, the creation of new structures, specified criteria for the allocation of resources to various activities, the allotment of tasks to various groups, and the evaluation of performance. Structure mainly concerns offices, positions and formal roles within an organization. Criteria refer to norms that form the basis for the distribution of responsibilities and resources to all lower-level units within an organization.

SEAMEO RIHED, in collaboration with IIEP, UNESCO, Paris, initiated a research programme with the major objective of studying the restructuring processes and their effects, both from a macro and an institutional point of view.  These studies were carried out by national teams and tried to focus on the implementation of the restructuring process, the difficulties encountered, and the effects of the restructuring process on university management.