Strategic Plan 2022-27
We have worked with our students, staff and stakeholders to refresh our Strategic Plan.
Changing your world so you can change ours
– our vision
UoG will drive knowledge and careers through excellence in Education, Business, Applied and Social Sciences, Health and Wellbeing, Computing, and Creatives
– our core purpose
The University that Connects
Digitally connected
We apply technology creatively to support teaching, research, and partnerships, and to drive efficiencies in ways of working.
Employer connected
We provide placements and work experience, develop career-relevant skills and offer continuing career support.
Community connected
We act as an anchor institution with a global outlook to promote the advancement of Gloucestershire.
Our goals
1. Provide an outstanding education
- Portfolio: delivering courses that meet employer needs and student demand
- Curriculum: transformed with inclusion, professionalisation, digital literacy and sustainability embedded
- Diversification: implemented online and modular (short course) provision as part of our core offer
- Quality: achieved TEF Gold
2. Support our students to thrive and achieve their full potential
- Connected Students: engaged through a data informed and collaborative student support model
- Digital Assistant: providing 24/7 digital student support and guidance
- Student Centres: enabling in-person support by professional multi-skilled staff
3. Encourage innovation and promote advancement of our community
- Cyber Partnerships: drive active knowledge exchange and collaboration that addresses the skills gap and fosters innovation
- Pathway partners: celebrate and extend the UoG global community
- Research strategy: aligned to academic portfolio
4. Reconfigure our infrastructure
- Estates: rationalised, agile, and vibrant multi-use spaces incorporating the new City Campus, the Creative and Computing Campus along with FuturePark
- Digital Strategy: adopted cloud based solutions driving efficient digitised working practices; Digital toolkit for students and staff
5. Value, empower and enable staff
- Development: learning opportunities available to develop the skills required for the workplace; objectives aligned to strategy
- Engagement: foster a culture where all can thrive, feedback is invited and acted upon, and staff are engaged
- Insights: workforce needs informed and shaped by data
6. Drive financial sustainability
- Financial sustainability: focused on commercial income, use of the estate, and non-pay; organisational structures are fit for purpose
- Growth: a data-led recruitment strategy to diversify and expand the national and international applicant pool
Assessing our performance
We measure the progress and success of our strategic plan using a balanced business scorecard approach focusing on four key areas.
Student outcomes
Enhanced and improved student outcomes measured by student continuation, completion and progression, and student satisfaction surveys, set against sector benchmarks.
People
Strong staff engagement and satisfaction measured through internal surveys, absence rates and turnover, set against sector benchmarks.
Financial
Sustainable and healthy financial performance measured and monitored through metrics such as Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA).
Student enrolment
Growth and diversification across student levels, types and markets measured through student enrolments.
Our values
Our values underpin everything that we do.
Integrity
Ambition
Nurture
Curiosity
Sustainable
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