**Dreaming,believing, achieving:

towards a 21st

century University

Overview

Professor Paul MartinDepute Principal

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It’s a changing world andwe need to change with it!

Aim to produce highly employable, IT-literate graduates

With bold aspirations, for themselves and their communities in the 21st century

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02

Our new Corporate Strategy

Initial thoughts

Intranet, email, meetings, feedback and discussion

Late 2013 Jan

Court,

Corporate Management Team

planning

Feb - March Feb- June

More open meetings

Students

Stakeholders

Senate & Court

1 August 2014 onwards

Implementation - towards a 21st century

University

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Early Themes

• Appetite for change

• Support for staff development

• Student attainment

• An enterprising and international university

• Fundamental review of academic portfolio

• Structures- Strong support for School focus

- Strong support for ‘primacy of the programme’

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04

Staff Views: Programme Leadership (1/3)

• Not ‘back to the future’• Relationship between HoS and PLs key• Link to review of SDGs• Need for clear processes and criteria around

appointment:

- PhD, student feedback, student attainment, innovation?

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05Staff Views: Programme Leadership (2/3)• Need clear links between Programme

Leadership and fundamental portfolio review

- Incentives for collaboration

- Niche programmes an important factor

- Developing an internationally attractive

portfolio with significantly improved PGT

pathways

• Maintaining and enhancing academic quality during a time of change

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06Staff Views: Programme Leadership (3/3)

• The Role of Research and Enterprise

- Support for UWS as a ‘teaching-led’ university

- Research underpinning for UG and TPG portfolio key

- Some untapped R&KE potential amongst academic colleagues

• Governance - All proposals subject to the normal

mechanisms.

*Over to you.