New strategy: share your ideas by 31 January
Wednesday, 29 January 2020
In his end of the year update in December, Vice-Chancellor Robert Van de Noort had updated colleagues on the new University strategy and invited ideas and suggestions.
This is a reminder that there is still time to share these. You can send your ideas and suggestions to university.strategy@reading.ac.uk by 31 January.
The strategy will be presented to the Council for sign-off in March. In preparation for that, we have been working on our delivery and evaluation plans. As with the strategy development, this is a collective effort. All Heads of School and Function have been asked to demonstrate – as part of the five-year planning process – how they will embed the strategic principles of Community, Excellence, Sustainability and Engaged University into operations.
Environmental sustainability and staff wellbeing have also been added to our existing institutional planning priorities of student recruitment, NSS and research income. These local plans will have an important role in shaping our University-wide priorities and activities.
The University Executive Board is also working with a range of representative groups including the Staff Forum, the People Plan Board, Senate, UCU and RUSU to refine our priority activities. Oversight groups are also being established to shape and coordinate our environmental sustainability and engagement work, both of which will have places for volunteers from our University community.