University of Hertfordshire Strategic Plan 2007 - 2012

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Shaping the Future Success of our Graduates Excellence in learning and teaching is at the heart of the University.The successful graduate of the future will recognise their own need to learn throughout life and will seek new and flexible ways in which to gain new skills and knowledge. The University will be a lead player in the enhancement of learning at all levels and stages of life. Teaching and learning is informed by research and scholarship, and the University will secure further integration between teaching and research for the benefit of the University community. Hertfordshire students will acquire skills which will enable them to be highly employable and entrepreneurial in their chosen fields - working for an employer or as an employer.We will strive to ensure that the opportunities which we offer are accessible to all who may benefit from them. Our Centre of Excellence in Learning and Teaching - the Blended Learning Unit - is developing advanced techniques for meeting learner needs and expectations. We will continue to invest in this core area of business, developing and exploiting new thinking and new tools in the enrichment of the student experience and graduate success.The University will promote lifelong engagement with employers and learners through continuing professional development, in-house courses, knowledge transfer projects, and by making learning and skills development accessible to all throughout their working lives. We will enhance the experience of our students - current and future - in their learning, social and cultural activities through: inspirational education, using advanced educational techniques based on exploration, and discovery investment in advanced learning technology, complemented by individual learning support investing in staff to support innovative and effective teaching techniques remodelling our curriculum frameworks to embed flexibility, sustainability and global perspectives, and to address student, employer and national skills needs connecting student learning with a vibrant and active research base in specialist fields promoting an integrated and multi-cultural mix of staff and students on all campuses working with international partners to develop multi-campus programmes - creating a 'global college' establishing an active and self-managing international alumni network providing professional development support for graduates during their careers developing a new student forum facility, providing a safe and stimulating social and learning environment for all of our students working with Schools, Colleges, partner Universities, regional partners, Exemplas and the Sector Skills Councils to develop learning opportunities which meet current and future regional skills needs and student needs at all levels - creating a 'skills escalator' integration of campus-based learning with learning in the workplace.
Far Reaching Engagement with Business and the Professions The University of Hertfordshire is a new model of a University - demand-led and market-leading, with dynamic and pervasive relationships with business and the professions. We will deliver this vision by: embedding innovation, employability and enterprise skills into the lifelong learning of students, staff and clients investing in enquiry-led and user-led research, and nurturing new research talent in areas of research excellence shaping the new health agenda through active engagement with employers engaging with regional businesses to widen and deepen our knowledge exchange and technology transfer activity matching student and graduate skills to businesses needs through proactive interaction with major corporates and SMEs, and embedding business experience in the curriculum delivering accessible education to employees through work-based and blended learning working with FE Colleges and other partners to meet the full range of skills needs of regional businesses and professions creating a dynamic and fluid multidisciplinary unit to help exploit ideas extending our widening participation strategy to engage proactively with employees who may not previously have had the opportunity to study at higher levels extending and developing our enterprise hub network, promoting knowledge exchange in areas of economic growth.
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