Transcript Meet the Vice Chancellor - Staffordshire University

Professor
Michael Gunn
Vice Chancellor
• Strategic Plan
– Values – partnership, people focus,
innovation & enterprise, and excellence
– Aims and targets for transnational education
(TNE)
• Establish a Staffordshire Global Award
– More during the conference
• Secure 25,000 TNE students
– Official figures from 11/12 – 12,000, actuals 15,000+
• Establish up to six overseas bases
– 1 in China
• Strategic Plan (cont)
– Partnership and Excellence – deep
commitment to
• Delivery of a UK/British HE experience
• Usual language English
• Maintenance of high quality and standards, at least
consistent with QAA Code of Practice
• Sharing honestly and transparently opportunities
and challenges so we can meet and handle them
together
• Respect for and celebration of the brand of
Staffordshire University and of our partners
• Working together as businesses that ensure
sufficient resource to secure our futures
• International context
– Forecasts for demand for higher education
– Technology and student expectations
changing
– Opportunities for TNE
– So what should purpose of TNE be?
• Trade, export
• Money
• Economic impact
– True value
• Is about people
• Partnerships
• International context (cont.)
– European Higher Education in the World
• Key priorities
– Strengthen capacity of HE and research to address
global challenges by engaging in innovation-orientated
international partnerships
– Tackle remaining obstacles to dual/double degree
programmes, and improve provision for quality
assurance and cross-border recognition
– Provide entrepreneurial and innovative curricula
including transferrable skills, and create international
training opportunities by working together with employers
inside and outside the EU
– Ensure coherence between internationalisation
strategies and EU development cooperation policies
• International context (cont.)
– Cooperation is key. With our partners
• Explore innovative curricula to meet the demands
of students and employers
• Ensure students and staff are agents of
cooperation
• Enhance quality assurance
• Explore research collaborations
• Increase global understanding
– Together we can achieve much
– For our students we can achieve these
objectives through the implementation of the
Staffordshire Graduate attributes
• The Staffordshire Graduate
• Understanding of forefront of subject knowledge
• Be work ready and employable and understand
enterprise and entrepreneurialism
• Understanding of global issues
• Be an effective communicator and presenter and
able to interact appropriately with a range of
colleagues confidently
• Independence of thought
• Inquiry based learning and critical analysis
• Problem solver and creator of opportunities
• Technologically, digitally and information literate
• Life-long learning
• Conclusion
– In these various ways the values of the Plan
will be met, the objectives for TNE will be
achieved and we will deliver the mission
which is to
– Transform people and communities by
delivering accessible, high quality, higher
education through partnership working