PROVIDE DISTINCTIVE, ACCESSIBLE, HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION
Attractive, Relevant and Market
Responsive Academic Portfolio
Become the university of choice for students in our
key markets and core academic disciplines. Provide
our graduates with relevant and future focused
knowledge, skills and professional qualifications,
enabling them to make a real difference around
the world through a sustained and meaningful
contribution to society. Taking advantage of
the necessary adaptions to learning in light of
the Covid-19 pandemic, ensure we have the
infrastructure in place to offer a flexible choice in
methods of learning that are appropriate to students’
circumstances and make the best use of emerging
technologies.
Outcomes:
• A portfolio that encourages people to study
with us and partners to work with us.
• An increase in our overall student population,
optimising the balance of different student
cohorts.
• An increase in the percentage of students
gaining work experience as part of their
programme.
• An increase in our graduate employment
measure.
Accessible and Inclusive
Lifelong Learning
Enhance further access for students from
under-represented groups, designing and
implementing new approaches to flexibility
in the learner journey in order to offer each
student a journey that is appropriate to their
needs.
Outcomes:
• An increase in the number of students
from under-represented groups.
• An increase the number of students
articulating into the later years of our
programmes from college.
• A high retention rate of students
across all programmes.
Our Academic Portfolio
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value of a new addition to our course provision
Our distinctive course offering
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10 | Strategic Plan 2020