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Our mission UHI strategic aims - in summary
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Make a transformational
To be a distinctive and contribution to the economic,
innovative regional environmental, social and
university of national cultural development of the
and international region.
significance: a university
Create excellence in learning
with a pivotal role in the
and teaching, and in research.
educational, economic,
social, cultural
Be a leading provider of
and environmental lifelong learning within
infrastructure of Scotland and beyond.
its region and which
reaches out to the Widen access to learning
people of the Highlands within the region.
and Islands and the
rest of the world Maintain good governance,
through its research leadership and management
and teaching. and ensure financial
sustainability.
Contents
Case studies
Supportive > Karen Paterson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Inclusive > Paul Morgan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Collaborative > HI Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Distinctive > Gaelic medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Innovative > video conferencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Relevant > courses for health professionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Flexible and accessible > learning centres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Sustainable > courses and research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Introduction from the principal
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We will also develop a range of degrees which strategic delivery body (SDB) for the new round
reflect the distinctive environment, history, of European funding. This will allow for the
linguistic identity and culture of the area. The possibility of up to £50m to be used over seven
knowledge economy needs a university that is years. This is welcome, but we still need to
active in carrying out research, and that has a build up more recurrent income for our future
programme for bringing intellectual products sustainability and strength.
to the marketplace and for knowledge transfer.
UHI welcomes the Scottish Government’s
We will carry out an increasing amount of
economic and skill strategies. The nature of the
research and work with other institutions −
UHI partnership, the wide area we cover, our
especially with the universities of Aberdeen,
research ambitions and our blended-learning
Edinburgh and Strathclyde. We have signed
delivery system mean we are at the very
an agreement with these universities through
heart of the strategy for a Scotland which is
which they mentor UHI to research strength
“wealthier and fairer, smarter, healthier, safer
as a precondition of university title.
and stronger and greener”. UHI is already
We have achieved significant increases in making a major contribution to this future for
student numbers over the past five years the Highlands and Islands and for Scotland as
without a corresponding increase in funding. a whole. We will continue to press for UHI to
We have set ambitious growth targets both become a university as a matter of urgency
for the lifetime of this plan and looking ahead and this will add to our ability to deliver these
to 2015. We must continue to attract more objectives.
degree students so that we can continue to
This strategic plan, approved by the UHI board
offer the breadth and volume of subjects and
of governors in September 2008, sets out our
degree programmes appropriate for a regional
aims and the critical success factors which
university with national and international
will ensure their delivery. We will measure our
ambitions. We need an increase in the Scottish
success and report annually to our board over
funding council funded student numbers
the life of the plan.
allocated to UHI in order to maintain the
number of higher national students and to
increase the number of degree students. This
will assist us in achieving financial sustainability.
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Supportive UHI
Karen Paterson, 22
BSc (Hons) sustainable rural development
Lews Castle College UHI
When she left school Karen chose to study close to home and achieved a first-class honours degree with UHI. Now she is
reinvesting her skills and knowledge locally to help the communities she grew up with become greener.
Karen is a first-class honours graduate who studied “I did the rural development course entirely online with
for her degree through Lews Castle College UHI some video conferencing and audio classes, although
She lives in Oban and works as the education officer the tutors were always on hand to help me This study
for ALIenergy, the Argyll, Lomond and the Islands method enabled me to be independent and I got myself
Energy Agency, a charitable organisation helping a part-time job - so I was learning and earning at the
local communities benefit from energy efficiency and same time
renewable energy schemes She grew up in Argyll “Now I’m in a great job that I really enjoy All my family
and Bute and accessed her degree course remotely and friends are in Argyll and Bute – I’ve lived here all my
through Dunstaffnage learning centre life and didn’t really want to leave If it wasn’t for UHI, I
may have had no choice ”
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The strategic environment: external analysis
Our region
We aspire to be an agent of further transformational Highlands and Islands enterprise and other stakeholders
change for our region. The Highlands and Islands see UHI as a major contributor to dealing with these
of Scotland have already been transformed from a challenges, namely:
region of low economic activity, high unemployment and • increasing the population of the Highlands and
population decline. Now it is a region which enjoys an Islands
all-time high rate of employment, where the population • creating a knowledge economy and high-value jobs
has grown and which is enjoying a cultural and linguistic • assisting the creation of new and more ambitious
renaissance. The region is increasingly seen as an businesses.
attractive place in which to live and work, and a place
where improved transport and information technology Becoming a university will greatly improve our
provide opportunities for people to make lifestyle choices contribution to the region’s development:
not available to previous generations. • it will act as a ‘hallmark’ proving the quality of our
Even so our region still faces significant challenges. The research and will help us to compete for research
population is not growing at the same rate across the funding
whole region. People are still leaving some rural and • it will strengthen our academic ‘brand’, attracting
island communities for the towns within the region, due local and national school leavers
to lack of employment and access to services in those • it will allow us to attract more high-quality academic
areas. Wage levels are below the Scottish average and staff
employment is too dependent on the public sector and • it will make us more recognisable and so help attract
on primary and seasonal industries. There are too few other sources of income.
young people, both in terms of actual numbers and in
relation to Scotland as a whole. They leave to further
their education or career and there are currently too
few opportunities to tempt them back.
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Inclusive UHI
Paul Morgan, 52
BSc (Hons) environment & heritage studies
Moray College UHI
Paul proves it’s never too late to learn. He returned as a mature student to do an undergraduate degree and is now working for
his masters. Studying with UHI has enabled him to change direction and develop a new career.
Paul, a former hotelier, studied at Lochaber College and wonderful facilities, and I was able to access it all
UHI in Fort William for our undergraduate environment without having to leave home – even though I felt I was
and heritage degree through Moray College UHI He is still at university
now manager of the National Trust for Scotland visitor “The flexible methods of learning are particularly
centre in Glencoe and is working towards his masters suitable for people like me with family and jobs and
degree in managing sustainable mountain development, unable to go to a traditional university Without UHI I
also with UHI would not have been able to seek pastures new ”
“I was looking for a new challenge when I sold the
hotel and studying with UHI at Lochaber was the ideal
opportunity UHI offered me a mix of good modules
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The strategic environment: external analysis
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Collaborative UHI
Professor Ian Megson at UHI’s department of diabetes welcomes the opportunity to work with local drugs development company
GlycoMar. The company was introduced to Professor Megson’s research group by UHI’s award-winning project, HI Links.
We’re helping businesses and communities in the rated by the Scottish Government as the expertise,
Highlands and Islands to develop and prosper by knowledge and innovation transfer project of the year
increasing access to high-level academic research, HI Links introduced Oban-based drug development
knowledge and expertise company GlycoMar to researchers at UHI’s
HI Links department of diabetes in Inverness This symbiotic
partnership is now evaluating the potential of new
HI Links is a UHI SEEKIT project enabling businesses drugs from marine organisms that could alleviate the
to tap into academia to help develop new products inflammatory aspects of diabetes, bringing benefit
and processes through consultancy, contract and to more than 200,000 diabetes sufferers across
collaborative research, and joint ventures Working with Scotland
more than 500 small businesses across the region -
resulting in 58 new products, 20 new processes, two Dr Charles Bavington, managing director of GlycoMar,
licensing deals, two spin-out companies and ten follow- says “GlycoMar is very happy to receive support
on research and development projects - it has helped from HI Links which has enabled us to establish this
to create an estimated £20 million worth of potential collaboration with Professor Megson’s group at UHI
new sales This project provides an important opportunity for us
to test the value of our products in a new disease area,
HI Links has outperformed around 20 of the country’s which we hope will lead to a long term development
top university business engagement teams and been programme “
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The strategic environment: external analysis
Our continuing professional development (CPD) manager Euan Black engages with employers to provide relevant and flexible
training for businesses in the Highlands and Islands.
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Distinctive UHI
Students at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI and other campuses across the Highlands and Islands are carrying Gaelic language and
culture into the 21st century.
Our special ability to blend further and higher education PGDE primary teaching with
is helping us break down the traditional barriers
between learning and training in a truly distinctive Gaelic or English
way We work collaboratively and flexibly to provide UHI reacted to the skills shortage in Gaelic-medium
the locally-based training our students and employers primary teachers by collaborating with the University
require When our courses reflect the needs of our of Strathclyde to create this unique 36-week taught
communities, everyone wins course The course is available through learning
UHI students at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI and Lews centres, Argyll College UHI, Inverness College UHI, Lews
Castle College UHI are learning the Gaelic language and Castle College UHI and (for English-medium students)
studying a range of Gaelic-medium degrees in regions through Moray College UHI
where Gaelic is part of the indigenous culture At UHI MA Gaelic with education
our students are engaging with a living, developing
modern language which is contributing to wider From September 2008 a new wave of Gaelic secondary
Scottish culture through TV, radio, music and sport teachers are being trained in a pioneering project
In turn they are carrying the language into the 21st between the University of Aberdeen and UHI Students
century by applying their skills in the media and in the will be able to study the new joint honours degree in
classroom Gaelic with education – the first of its kind in Scotland
– at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI or at Lews Castle College
UHI, with the education component delivered online by
the school of education, University of Aberdeen
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The strategic environment: external analysis
The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) UHI undertakes world-class research at its base in Dunstaffnage.
We will continue to press for funding to enable us to We must also continue to invest in our estates,
further develop our research and commercialisation teaching and learning infrastructure and staff to make
activities, so that we can deliver the knowledge sure that we meet the needs of students in the region
economy that the Highlands and Islands needs if it is to and attract more students from outside.
be successful.
Through our partner colleges based in the diverse
and dispersed communities of the region, we work
closely with employers in those communities. The UHI
partnership is working with businesses to develop
accessible and flexible advanced provision and to
provide them with access to the higher education
knowledge base.
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Innovative UHI
Fiona Hyslop, cabinet secretary for education and lifelong learning, speaks to UHI staff at a recent conference. Our staff and
students are very comfortable with the latest technology and use it efficiently and effectively – with no travelling required!
Since 1997 UHI has been pioneering the use of video Gemma Bateman, 23
conferencing in our teaching and everyday business BSc (Hons) environment and heritage
Now our students and staff spend less time travelling
and more time doing what matters studies - North Highland College UHI
In the academic year 2007-2008, from our video Gemma Bateman from Shinness in Sutherland was
conferencing hub in Shetland, we managed 5,400 able to access her science degree through the
multi-point (three sites or more) video conferences Dornoch campus of North Highland College UHI She
across the Highlands and Islands, many of them also engaged with fellow students face to face through the
linking into centres outside our catchment area campus’s high-quality video conferencing facilities
About 65% of these were for teaching, some involving “I wanted a degree so I could have a career within the
students in up to 15 different sites communicating environmental sector, but I wasn’t in a position to move
through one medium The other 35% were part of away The Dornoch campus is near my home and I liked
the day-to-day routine managing of an institution that the fact that it is small and very friendly
serves a region of over half a million people, dispersed
over more than half of Scotland “My lectures were through video conferencing which
is very different to the norm This enabled a diverse
range of modules to be run and meant that students
from across the region could take part I think it is a
really good way for people who live in rural areas to
study and meet others It helps people to connect ”
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The strategic environment: internal analysis
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Relevant UHI
Mother of two Rachel Tearse was working as a locum nurse in Back, Isle of Lewis, when she signed up to do a PhD with Lews
Castle College UHI. She went on to join the college’s staff. She believes the MA and its stand-alone CPD modules will benefit many
people in the health and social care sectors: “Ultimately, it will help them to give the best possible service to the people they are
caring for.”
Two new UHI courses are addressing some of the health science at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness and
real practical health needs across modern rural also at the Dumfries dental centre at Dumfries and
Scotland and beyond One could help ease the shortage Galloway Royal Infirmary
of dental care in rural areas, the other will enable
health professionals to update and expand their skills MA health and wellbeing
wherever they are Healthcare professionals and the social care workforce
in rural areas often find it difficult and expensive to
BSc oral health science conduct their studies away from home Now this new
Developed in collaboration with NHS Education for postgraduate degree gives them access to high-
Scotland, NHS Highland and NHS Dumfries and quality professional development without leaving their
Galloway, this new degree will enable graduates to computer screens UHI has considerable success at
carry out routine dental work under the prescription of delivering online courses such as MSc infection control
a dentist They will be able to register jointly as dental and MSc medical device decontamination but this is
therapists and dental hygienists and, by easing the the first online course of its kind in Scotland which
burden on dentists, could help improve access to dental has relevance to health and wellbeing for all care
care for people in rural areas of Scotland The course professionals in all rural areas It was developed on the
is offered by the UHI school of oral health science at Isle of Lewis by Dr Rachel Tearse and her team
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Aims and strategic objectives 2008-2011
Our overarching ambition is to achieve university title. To assist the delivery of this we have identified a number of aims,
objectives and corresponding critical success factors for the next three years. We also include a balanced scorecard of
targets showing how we intend to measure our performance against those objectives.
1 Increase our student population from both within and • Utilise UHI’s unique tertiary education partnership
outside the region to maximise articulation and progression from all
Scottish credit and qualifications framework (SCQF)
levels.
• Improve recruitment through market-led development
and promotion of current core programmes.
• Ensure our portfolio enables progress to degree level,
whatever the starting point.
• National and international recruitment to specialist
curricular areas with a distinctive UHI study
experience.
• Ensure a structured and uniform approach to student
induction, assessment and support to best sustain
continued learning.
• Increase taught postgraduate students to courses
which reflect our regional strengths.
2 Increase our research, knowledge exchange and • Develop and sustain centres of research excellence
commercialisation activity in environmental sciences, sustainable development,
business, energy, health, social policy, culture and
heritage.
• Increase our research capacity and reputation
through national and international collaborations.
• Help businesses in the Highlands and Islands to
develop and prosper through greater access to
the knowledge, expertise and technology available
in Scotland’s universities, colleges and research
institutes.
3 Enhance the employability of our graduates • Develop in our learners: independence of thought,
self-confidence and leadership capability, the
ability to tackle and solve problems, a creative and
entrepreneurial approach to the challenges of life,
and the capacity for critical analysis.
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Flexible and accessible UHI
Learning centres enable access to learning at all levels for local students, in flexible, inclusive and innovative ways.
UHI is a key player in the Highlands and Islands learning their confidence is increasing and it’s a degree course
centres strategy group and an enthusiastic supporter Now the kids are coming in as well – we’ve got four
of the ways in which learning centres are strengthening youngsters starting degrees with us this year ”
and sustaining our small rural communities There are Fiona Hyslop, cabinet secretary for education and
113 learning centres across the Highlands and Islands, lifelong learning says “Learning centres have an
each with its own special understanding of the people important role to play - by providing access to learning
it serves and training they are helping individuals to realise their
Jane Henderson, manager of Mallaig learning centre, potential and contributing to a stronger economy
is a former UHI student She describes herself as “a “The learning centre strategy group is an excellent
traditional Mallaig girl I left school, married young, had example of learning centres and partner agencies
my children young, my husband was a fisherman and I working together and playing a key role in widening
was the school cleaner ” access to training, learning, guidance and employability-
She did a UHI cultural studies degree through the related activities ”
learning centre when it opened six years ago and has
never looked back “The learning centre is part of
the community, we know the protocols and respect
everyone’s point of view People come to us because
we’re not intimidating They do a computer course, then
an access to UHI studies and the next thing you know
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Aims and strategic objectives 2008-2011
4 Be a centre of excellence for the development and • Provide quality educational, training and research
enhancement of the Gaelic language, culture and opportunities through the medium of Scottish Gaelic.
heritage • Disseminate an understanding of the Gaelic language
and culture through our research and teaching, and
the wider student experience.
5 Enhance the impact of our cultural engagement • Increase learning opportunities linked to the
activity distinctive cultures and social identities of our region.
• Widen the range and increase the frequency of our
cultural engagement activities across the region and
more widely.
6 Contribute to the sustainability of our environment • Develop and encourage social responsibility by
and to sustainable development at a national and embedding education about sustainable development
international level through our teaching and research into our courses and the wider student experience.
• Show leadership on environmental issues by
improving our own environmental and sustainability
performance: cutting energy and water use, reducing
travel emissions and supporting biodiversity.
7 Contribute to the sustainability of fragile communities • Create and strengthen highly skilled jobs across our
within our region, ensuring growth is shared region through our federal and collegiate model.
• Increase the capacity of individuals to enter and stay
in the regional labour market by enabling lifelong
learning and wider access.
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Sustainable UHI
Commercialisation
Greenspace Research Ltd, based at Lews Castle College
UHI, is a research development and commercialisation
project to reduce carbon emissions in the building
industry The spin-off company develops software tools
to analyse proposed new buildings and certify their
‘green’ credentials The Greenspace researchers and
engineers successfully demonstrated their liveEnergy
analysis tool and live EPC system - which produces
Energy Performance Certificates - at the Grand Designs
Live 2008 exhibition in London
Teaching
The first sustainable construction degree in the
UK is being offered by UHI and is expected to draw
industry professionals from across the UK Designed in
consultation with an industry working group, the course
will cover new legislation, renewable energy production,
equipment and systems, as well as waste management
and other sustainable challenges for new builds and
conversions UHI’s MSc managing sustainable mountain
development is attracting international students to
Research the region.
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Aims and strategic objectives 2008-2011
8 Enhance the student learning experience, including • Build on our culture and practice of student-led
the social dimension of learning enhancement to learning.
• Promote and support the development of active,
responsive, reflective, confident and rigorous learners.
• Develop national and international participation in
areas of expertise and practitioner networks.
• Develop the richness of the social dimension to
learning through UHI’s physical and technical
structure and through its learning methodologies.
9 Optimise the links between research and teaching • Support and develop among all teaching staff a
culture of being self-reflective, intellectually curious
academic practitioners.
• Develop a curriculum at honours and postgraduate
level where there is demonstrable strength of staff
engagement with research and scholarship.
• Encourage research-active staff to contribute to our
curriculum delivery.
10 Increase staff capacity to deliver degree and • Build on our staff capacity to teach in new curricular
post-degree qualifications areas and at higher curricular levels
• Build among all teaching staff knowledge and
understanding of the components of blended learning
and the skills in using them to enhance students’
learning experience.
11 Achieve optimal outcomes in all areas of external • Improve the framework for the management of
quality assurance quality assurance and enhancement.
• Ensure that developing requirements of key bodies
(Scottish funding council (SFC), quality assurance
agency (QAA), Scottish qualifications agency (SQA),
HM inspectorate of education (HMIe)) are reflected
within UHI quality management systems.
• Ensure increased student engagement in quality
processes.
• Ensure that internal quality processes both promote
and evidence enhancement of the student learning
experience.
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Aims and strategic objectives 2008-2011
12 Deliver learning that is relevant, flexible and • Increase our engagement with employers, skills
adaptable to the needs of employers and individuals. councils, trade unions and others in the development
of the curriculum, allowing them to influence its
content and participate in its delivery.
• Extend the use of learning in the workplace through
work-based learning opportunities and placements.
• Enhance opportunities for recognition of prior
learning, credit transfer and accreditation of
professional awards.
• Renew our curriculum design to optimise flexibility
and the ability to combine learning opportunities in
order to create personalised programmes of study
leading to customised awards.
• Continue to develop flexible opportunities for those
already working to enhance their skills, and maintain
the relevance of existing skills.
• Continue to provide exit qualifications at Scottish
credit and qualifications framework (SCQF) levels 7 &
8 as recognition of successful study.
13 Optimise opportunities for local access to higher • Continue to develop our blended learning teaching
education for students who are not geographically practices.
mobile. • Continue to develop a mix of supporting technologies
to optimise access to the core undergraduate
courses (including HNC/D) as widely as possible
across the region.
14 Identify and target under-represented groups in • Undertake developments and activities responsive to
higher education, within the region. the needs of under-represented groups.
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Aim 5: Maintain good governance, leadership and management and ensure
financial sustainability.
15 Ensure that our income flows support the delivery of • Ensure that our funding streams reflect the
our mission. uniqueness of our mission and our status as a
developing university.
• Generate operating surpluses for ongoing strategic
investment.
• Allocate finances to encourage activities which help
meet our strategic objectives.
16 Diversify our income to strengthen our financial • Increase recruitment among international students
sustainability. and other full-fee students.
• Increase research income from our growing
research base.
• Increase commercial and fundraising income.
• Develop and increase income from the work of the
development trust.
17 Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the use • Increase the use of a networked modular system for
of resources. more effective delivery across the curriculum.
• Improve the effectiveness of services through sharing
common support services.
18 Effective and efficient governance. • Ensure a robust planning and risk management
process to strengthen decision-making.
• Ensure continuous improvement of the governing
process through critical self-evaluation.
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Balanced scorecard of targets 2008-2011
Increase the number of active researchers in the research assessment exercise (RAE) by 33%.
Increase the number of students studying Gaelic language, or through the medium of Gaelic, by 25%.
Increase by 100% the number of staff who complete Gaelic awareness courses.
Increase the number of people attending a UHI cultural engagement event each session by 3%.
Measure and improve the audience rating of the impact of events by 3% year on year.
Close the gap between the demographic and socio-economic profile of the Highlands and Islands and the UHI
student population profile.
STAKEHOLDER PERSPECTIVE
Building reputation and respect
Improve the positive destinations rate for UHI leavers obtaining first degrees from full-time courses to the higher
education statistics agency (HESA) benchmark for UHI.
Ensure that personal development planning opportunities are available to all students.
Sustain or increase the number and distribution of UHI-influenced jobs across the whole region.
Improve continuation rates for UHI full-time first degree entrants to the HESA benchmark for UHI.
Grow the number of part-time and mature students at least in proportion to total growth.
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FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVE
Building sustainability
Increase total research funding by 25%, increase total knowledge transfer funding by 25%, increase total private
sector research funding by 10%.
Increase the proportion of non-grant income to the UHI partnership.
Achieve 3% cash releasing efficiency savings on operating costs (against a 20% increase in teaching activity) by
2010/11 to allow us to invest further in our development.
Increase the proportion of students on networked delivery and blended learning courses.
Formally adopt the Scottish funding council (SFC) strategy for higher education institutions and apply it.
Increase the proportion of research active staff involved in teaching, and teaching active staff involved in research.
Measure the impact of completing the student participation in quality Scotland (sparqs) development for UHI by
2010/11.
Measure the impact of the revised quality framework by spring 2011.
Align UHI governance with committee of university chairmen (CUC) benchmarks where appropriate.
Embed integrated planning and risk management to chartered institute of public finance and accountancy (CIPFA)
‘delivering performance’ benchmark.
Implement self-evaluation of effectiveness of the UHI board of governors.
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Our mission UHI strategic aims - in summary
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Make a transformational
To be a distinctive and contribution to the economic,
innovative regional environmental, social and
university of national cultural development of the
and international region.
significance: a university
Create excellence in learning
with a pivotal role in the
and teaching, and in research.
educational, economic,
social, cultural
Be a leading provider of
and environmental lifelong learning within
infrastructure of Scotland and beyond.
its region and which
reaches out to the Widen access to learning
people of the Highlands within the region.
and Islands and the
rest of the world Maintain good governance,
through its research leadership and management
and teaching. and ensure financial
sustainability.
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