Working together, we will retain our unwavering focus on quality, grow where we can maintain our quality and build on our partnerships within City, within London and across the world.
Achieving the Vision is based on three strategic priorities:
Better - Maintain quality trajectory
Build on the quality focus of the Strategic Plan 2012 to 2016 and maintain City’s current upwards trajectory in research intensity, research quality, education quality and student experience more widely.
Further improving quality will remain vital to our success and is what drives the people who work at City and attracts the students whose lives will be enhanced through their time here.
City also plans to grow, with a firm guiding principle of ‘quality-constrained growth’, growing while maintaining or increasing quality.
Bigger - Achieve growth in a way which maintains quality
Growth is important to achieve the critical mass necessary for both research excellence and educational experience and effectiveness. Critical mass can result in improved quality without significant increases in costs (through economies of scale).
Over the next five years growth will come vertically for existing subjects that have momentum and horizontally, where City’s existing strengths can be leveraged through new and joint degrees or shared pathways and through improved student retention.
Growth in student numbers will be accompanied by growth in research and enterprise income as City builds further on its internationalism and seeks a wider range of income sources.
Leverage partnerships
Partnerships within City, within London (including through the University of London) and internationally with the aim of making us far more connected.
Our strategies
Our strategic priorities will guide City’s activity over the next five years and will be made operational through the:
- Education and Student Strategy
- Research and Enterprise Strategy
- Internationalisation Strategy
- People Strategy
- School and Professional Service Strategic Plans
- and, ultimately, people’s individual objectives reviewed as part of the annual appraisal round.
Our strategic priorities
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Better
We will build on Strategic Plan 2012 to 2016 and maintain City’s current upwards trajectory in research intensity, research quality, education quality and student experience.
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Bigger
Our growth will come from existing subjects that have momentum and where City’s existing strengths can offer new and joint degrees or shared pathways and through improved student retention.
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Partnerships
City will nurture its existing partnerships and seek new ones across the private sector and the business community where we already have a significant profile.