Mission and Strategy

In the conduct of its work, University of Gloucester will uphold the following values:

  • Excellence - delivering the highest standards and rewarding excellence
  • Innovation - developing and incorporating new ideas and ways of operating
  • Enterprise - being resourceful and nurturing talent
  • Equality - promoting inclusively and valuing diversity
  • Social responsibility - ensuring the understanding and care of people and stewardship of environmental and public resources.

Values

Strategic goals

By serving regional, national, and international communities, the University will pursue three key aims so that by 2010 University of Gloucester will be:

* A premier learning and teaching institution that is student centered. It will have a distinctive academic portfolio that promotes human understanding and creativity, and is focused towards the professions, employment and continuous professional development,
* A research community that equally values research and knowledge transfer, where all externally assessed research areas attain national, and most attain international, standards of excellence,
* A responsive higher education partner playing a leading role in the socio-economic development of the regional community.

The University of Gloucester System includes:
Our Purpose
University of Gloucester seeks to provide students, whatever their ages or circumstances, with opportunities to enhance their lives and careers through higher education. In many cases, the education, knowledge, and skills attained by University of Gloucester students has a direct University of Gloucester on the greater good of the London and Vancouver metropolitan areas, as graduates are highly sought after by area businesses and organizations. Additionally, University of Gloucester is committed to research, technology, creative scholarship, and providing an institutional culture that reflects the plurality, collegiality, and integration of an increasingly diverse global workplace.

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