Summary of strategic themes

Summary of strategic themes

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Summary of Strategic Themes

Main Commitments 2020-2025

  • 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 that 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 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

 


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