Strategic Plan 2015-2020

• To offer transformational opportunities to everyone who has the ability to benefit from Abertay’s approach to university education.
• To inspire and enable our students, staff and graduates to achieve their full potential.
• To use our knowledge and expertise to have a positive impact on the world around us.

We will do this by

• Choosing our own path, being different if it means we can serve our students, staff, partners, and wider community better.
• Developing new ways to open up study at Abertay by providing a range of routes to an Abertay degree.
• Providing a broad, flexible, responsive and relevant curriculum to prepare students with the knowledge and skills to be successful in the world beyond Abertay.
• Working in partnership with our students, encouraging greater involvement in shaping our policies and practice
• Aligning our teaching, research, innovation and knowledge exchange activity to local and national priorities.
• Encouraging our staff to use their knowledge and expertise to solve real-world problems.
• Investing in high quality infrastructure to provide an environment which will support and inspire our students and staff.
• Developing and sustaining an inclusive and supportive culture, welcoming and retaining students and staff from a diverse range of backgrounds.
• Giving our students a more international experience by increasing the number of international students at Abertay and providing more opportunities for exchanges.
• Being rooted in our community and maintaining close links with key partners in Dundee and beyond.

In everything we do, we will strive to:

• Ensure excellence
• Be innovative
• Be professional
• Be fair, inclusive and transparent
• Provide the best possible student experience
• Demonstrate the highest standards of leadership and governance
• Provide appropriate and high quality facilities

Our ambitions are aligned with five overarching themes:

• Choosing our own path
• Recognising and developing potential
• Expanding horizons
• Working in partnership
• Making our knowledge accessible

Further information

For further information please contact Caroline Summers, Director of Strategic Planning, or email planning@abertay.ac.uk