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• comprehensive, with a broad teaching and research profile in the arts, sciences and professions• selective, within a comprehensive base, to develop particular areas of strength and emphasis• research-active, with a strong teaching and research nexus across all our disciplines• internationally focused, for both the content and standards of our activities• technologically innovative, to maximise our flexibility and responsiveness• flexible and responsive, to meet the needs of the community, our students and our graduatesPriority Strategic ObjectivesThe University has identified six priority strategic objectives of particular significance to achievinginternational excellence:• to recruit, develop and retain the highest quality staff• to attract, develop and graduate the highest quality students• to increase and diversify the University’s funding base• to develop, and direct resources preferentially to, areas of particular strength, importance andopportunity• to build strategic partnerships and alliances• to improve collaboration within the UniversityOperational PrioritiesOperationally, the University has identified in its current Operational Priorities Plan for the 2003 to 2005triennial period the following priorities:Internationalisation• extend the international experiences of UWA students• further develop international benchmarking and quality assurance processes• attract more high quality international students, particularly postgraduate students, from a diverserange of countriesTeaching and Learning• further improve the University’s practice of flexible teaching and learning• implement a University-wide outcomes-based approach to teaching, learning and assessment withparticular reference to:• mastery of the discipline;• English competence and literacy;• information skills competence and literacy;• research skills; and• other generic skills.• enhance the nexus between teaching and researchResearch• improve research outcomes and their impact• increase the number of higher degree by research students and the higher degree completion rate,coupled with an increase in funding per capita• increase total research income from all sourcesResourcing and Management• further expand and diversify the University’s funding base, with particular emphasis onunrestricted income13
• further enhance quality and equity in staffing, particularly in enhancing and recognisingperformance and flexibility in staffing arrangements• enhance the University’s use and management of information technology• build further effective strategic partnerships and alliancesProposed Strategic ObjectivesIt is expected that the Operational Priorities Plan, which the University is developing for the 2006 to 2008triennium, will replace the six priority strategic objectives listed above with the following:• to improve the quality of the student learning experience• to improve the quality, impact and productivity of research and research training• to improve the University’s positioning, reputation and strategic relationships• to increase and diversify the University’s income, with particular emphasis on general purposeincome• to recruit, develop and retain the highest quality staff, and support the development of their fullpotential, within a ‘one-staff, one-University’ philosophy• to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the management of the UniversityRisk ManagementThe University recognises risk management as an integral part of good management and iscommitted to achieving best practice risk management. A primary objective of the UWA RiskManagement Plan is to provide consistency to business risk management practices. The Planoutlines the Corporate Risk Management Framework, including a Risk Appetite statement, which isdesigned to provide assurance that all key risks within the business are being identified and managedappropriately.During 2005, 59 business risk management plans were either reviewed or created and signed off by therelevant responsible authority. A web-enabled database was developed to house and report against all ofthe UWA business risk management plans.14
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