The leadership succession challenge for higher education: A pilot of leadership development centres at Newcastle University

This chapter describes Newcastle University’s pilot of an approach to leadership succession management and development undertaken between January and November 2005. The work was funded by a Leadership Foundation Fellowship, and this chapter informs colleagues of the methodology, potential difficulties, benefits and lessons learned from introducing a leadership framework and a development centre approach for identifying and developing prospective Heads of School in a traditional pre-1992 university.