Kingston University's Strategic Plan

The Strategic Plan describes Kingston University’s current position and summarises its priorities for 2008–2013. It both builds on the University's successes and seeks to meet future challenges.

Achievements

The new Plan builds on Kingston’s current 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 takes account of important changes in the higher education (and wider) environment, with the major consequences for Kingston likely to be:

  • 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).