Summary of Strategic Goals

• Enhance academic and pastoral support for students 
• Create dynamic frameworks which provide holistic learning 
• Develop physical environments which are conducive to learning
• Expand high-quality online learning 
• Engage in work-based learning that adds value to the learning experience
• Maintain the relevance of teaching programmes
• Design continuous, formative and summative assessments which are valid, robust and transparent
• Improve and modernise the doctoral programmes
• Deliver continuous professional development programmes

• Promote world-class research of local, regional and global significance
• Conduct research and knowledge transfer that supports the rankings
• Secure sustainable funding for R&D
• Expand corporate research and knowledge transfer
• Improve communication and dissemination of research output
• Undertake responsible research ensuring integrity and ethics
• Design a human resource strategy that supports researchers
• Apply clusters concepts to stimulate well-funded, sustainable research

• Assist students and members of staff with disability
• Support under-represented and first-generation students
• Advance and commit to gender and LGBTIQ rights
• Ensure access and inclusion of diverse cultures
• Expand health promotion and wellbeing services
• Engage the campus community
• Promote public outreach

• Engage industry in curriculum development
• Embed industry knowledge in the learning experience
• Enhance learning through enterprise projects
• Promote interpersonal and collaborative skills
• Prepare learners for employment and self-employment
• Expand executive education
• Provide expertise to industry
• Develop enterprise and industry colloquia 

• Promote studies and research that are focused on cultural heritage
  
• Instil an awareness and appreciation of Maltese characteristics 
• Protect and preserve the Maltese language while simultaneously continuing to cherish the English language
• Prepare sufficient and suitable local human capital that is creatively empowered, culturally enriched and fit to serve the evolving economy
• Deliver high-quality education which can transform learners into highly competent and effective citizens 
• Preserve the University’s place as the principal higher education institution on the island and a unique academic hub in the Mediterranean
• Retain and improve the University’s position among the top 4% of the world’s universities

• Strengthen and deepen student internationalisation in a context where Malta itself is a testbed of growing cosmopolitanism
• Strengthen and deepen staff internationalisation
• Nurture and disseminate the University’s good name
• Attract international postgraduate students 
• Broaden the University’s respectful and enriching engagement with the world

• Develop sustainable land and buildings
• Reduce, reuse and recycle waste
• Extend energy efficient measures 
• Conserve water and reduce consumption
• Encourage sustainable transport measures
• Deliver training and research on sustainability
• Promote healthy living practices on campus

• Create an ecosystem of infrastructure and support
• Manage and develop student-centred processes
• Expand infrastructure for student welfare
• Enhance library resources
• Achieve excellence in technology-based services
• Invest in people, empower the workforce
• Develop internal and external communications
• Deliver physical infrastructure
• Consolidate the financial framework