Strategic aims

Financial

  • Grow home/EU core and fee income
  • Grow international fee income

Stakeholder

  • WoW valued highly by graduates
  • WoW valued highly by employers

Process

  • Recruitment of UK and EU students to target
  • Recruitment of international students to target
  • Widen access using bursary and scholarship schemes under OFFA Access Agreement

Learning and Growth

  • Optimise portfolio of academic programmes in response to market needs and viability

How

  • Providing innovative, exciting and relevant academic programmes, to a high academic standard and informed by research.
  • Providing programmes based on, and responsive to, undergraduate, postgraduate, and part-timemarket needs.
  • Strengthen the engagement of staff with employers and other external stakeholders to ensure the delivery of relevant curricula and promote other related activities.
  • Reviewing the existing portfolio of programmes in terms of ability to recruit and viability of delivery, there by identifying new opportunities for international recruitment and part-time provision for lifelong learners (involving a review of postgraduate programmes).
  • Keeping under review the University Collaborative Partnership policy, maintaining consistency with the international development intentions of the University.
  • Maintaining a highly professional Marketing teamfocused on understanding and communicating with existing and future stakeholders, and on working with the faculties and academic planning to maximise new opportunities.
  • Application of a professional, efficient and robust recruitment and admission process focused on the student.
  • Development of an effective Annual Giving fundraising programme in support of scholarships, bursaries and hardship.
  • Engaging with prospective learners at an early stage of their life/decision-making process, and developing an ongoing, supportive relationship through to enrolment and their continuing relationship with LJMU.
  • Continued involvement in regional collaborative initiatives aimed at widening participation, notably Aim Higher and City of Learning.

Strategic Initiatives

  • Academic team development and structuring
  • Implement WoW Project Plan, including Graduate Development Centre
  • Customer Relationship Management System implementation
  • Programme viability tool-kit
  • Part-time provision review
  • Launch and implementation of enhanced Annual Giving programme
  • Programme approvals and closure controls
  • Postgraduate provision development
  • Improved registration, supervision and monitoring of PGR students.

 Measures of Success Between 2007/08 and 2011/12:

  • Core income (including home/EU fees) to grow from £99m to £128m
  • International fee income to grow from £6m to £7.7m
  • More than 50% participation of final-year students in WoW assessment through the Graduate Development Centre in 2012
  • Student employment, as per EPI(1) Benchmark (First Destination Survey), to be 95% by 2012
  • 100% achievement of student recruitment targets each year to remain within the HEFCE contract range and the parameters set by other public funding bodies
  • 100% achievement of international recruitment targets
  • 100% achievement of access and bursary targets
  • 100% adoption of university minimum student enrolment numbers to ensure module viability



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