Kingston University's Strategic Plan

The Strategic Plan, which was prepared during 2008/09, summarises the University's priorities for 2008–2013. It both builds on the University's successes and seeks to meet future challenges.

Achievements

The Plan builds on Kingston's achievements, including:

  • sustained student growth and dynamic portfolio development;
  • strengthened commitment to widening participation and an increasingly diverse student population;
  • increasing levels of student satisfaction;
  • a more confident research culture;
  • a tried-and-tested commitment to collaboration with other institutions, and a strengthened engagement with business and the community; and
  • an accelerated building programme.

Challenges

The Plan also anticipated important changes in the higher education (and wider) environment, and was written with the expectation of:

  • a significant reduction in the opportunities for student growth, in particular of HEFCE-funded undergraduates; and
  • an increase in the level of uncertainty – about future government policies for higher education, the wider global picture and cost pressures.

Read more by downloading a copy of the Strategic Plan (PDF).