Setting the scene
Trying to imagine a world beyond 2030 is challenging to say the least.
So colleagues will be provided with some information to help them have a useful and productive conversation and to help them develop their Big Ideas.
Developing Our Future Vision
Developing Our Future Vision explains how we want people to get involved in developing our future vision and strategic plan.
It outlines some potential future scenarios to help begin meaningful conversations. It also also poses some fundamental questions to think about when coming up with your Big Ideas.
You may also want to show your team the film below to help start your conversation about the future vision.
Thought pieces
Some of our University leaders have put together short pieces outlining what the future for their areas of expertise might look like. You may agree with these or disagree – the main thing is that you use these to spark a conversation about our future.
- Business engagement and commercialisation
- International context
- Research (Appendix)
- Social responsibility (Appendix)
- Teaching, learning and students (Appendix)
- Technology and digital (Appendix)
University documents
You might want to read our Stocktake Report, Facts and Figures and Manchester 2020 documents to familiarise yourself with our current situation and progress to date.
Key themes in HE
There are a number of recurring themes present in the sector and external environment. It may be useful to consider these when generating your ideas to help shape our future vision.
- The role of technology inside and out
- Major opportunities (e.g. Northern Powerhouse, Industrial Strategy, Devolution/Health Innovation, the Cities agenda)
- International: rising global competition, demographics, geopolitics, post Brexit
- Fragmentation of traditional 3-year campus provision (e.g. 2 year degrees, apprenticeships, distance learning)
- Major cross cutting societal issues (e.g. social mobility, inequality)
- The future world of work
- Rising expectations and regulation (e.g. value for money, choice, transparency, competition)
- Financial sustainability in the sector
- The role of universities in society
- Sustained negative media and political uncertainty
If you want to find out more about factors shaping the sector, visit:
- Change is coming: how universities can navigate through turbulent political times (HEPI)
- What’s the use in university planning? (Times Higher Education)