Summary of strategic themes


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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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