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Campus ConversationsNovember 2015Professor Andrea Nolan

Principal & Vice-Chancellor

Ambition, Innovation

and Decisions

Strategy 2020

• Why?

Sustainable & Successful

But also…

To realise our potential

Developing Strategy 2020

• What did we say back then?

Our Future?

Our Future?

‘best student experience in the UK’

‘never believed I could have set up my own business’ – it was tough but I was

so well supported

‘well prepared … worked in 3 different countries so far’Its great belonging to the

‘ENU family’ … contacts

I learned a lot through my volunteering project

in Malaysia

‘Lets see what Edinburgh

Napier is doing’ ‘the place to flourish’

‘Research funding all time high’

‘A great place to develop your career’

How are we doing?

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 201570%

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Student Experience: NSS

UK Average Scottish Average Edinburgh Napier

PTES 2014 = 76%2015 = 83%

PRES 2013 = 80%2015 = 80%

2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/180

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Research Grant & Contract Income

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League Table Position

Complete Uni Guide GuardianTimes Average

Academic Development

• Academic Staff holding a PhD at 48%

• HEA Fellowship, 47%

- predicted to rise to 60% based on current progress

Our 14/15 Plan Key strategies (academic, international, student experience) Enhancement Led Institutional Review (ELIR) REF 2014 Research infrastructure (RIO) 29 (+21) PhD studentships Academic Criteria Transforming Tomorrow, Together Bainfield, student residences & hubs Graduate Employability Project New organisational structures New visual identity Staff engagement

Cyber Academy & apprenticeships Get on Board & free law clinics Wood pulp & sustainable transport Creative awards for our students Partnership development Eye drop devices & vet nurses in India Paperless boards Contextual admissions & admissions processes THE Outstanding Estates Team Management accounts & business intelligence

Many local successes

Internal communications survey (February 2015)

• The majority of staff had – discussed Strategy 2020 with their manager (70%)

– sufficient channels of access to the Principal (81%)

– right amount of communication from ULT (up 20% to 70%)

• High readership of emails from ULT (> 80%)

• Leadership Team communication had improved (74%)

• Staff positive about greater visibility of ULT ….

Engagement …… Shaping our future ….

Staff Engagement

Keeping up pace & seeing return

• Grow our Academic Reputation

• Deliver Excellent Personalised Student Experience

• Build Innovation, Enterprise & Citizenship

• Internationalise our work

Ongoing challenges• Financial pressures

• Competition

• Divergent policy environment

Culture

Values & Culture

‘Actively engaged in delivering our vision and purpose’

‘Led by our academic agenda’

‘High aspirations for, and confidence in, ourselves and our students’

Staff consider we are making good progress

But…

“Empowered to make decisions about how best to play our part…”

“All part of a one team delivering our academic ambitions & strategic objectives”

>68% of staff felt we had only just started or making small steps

The Journey ahead

Our 2015/16 Plan

NSS, PTES& PRES

Academic development

Research applications

Feedback

Postgraduate growth

Student Opportunities

Enhancedservices

Widening participation

Strategicapproach

Socialinnovation

Graduateemployability

International operations

Continuous improvement

Studentrecruitment

Environment

Transnational Education

ACADEMIC REPUTATION

STUDENT EXPERIENCE

INNOVATION, ENTERPRISE, CITIZENSHIP

INTERNATIONALISATION

Enabling actions

• New website and intranet

• Marketing strategy

• Staff engagement

• Online first for staff & e-Services for students

• Academic Workload Framework

• Reward & recognition

• New fees package

• Estates strategy

Estates: ‘enabling our ambition’

• Develop inspiring spaces for teaching/learning & student/staff interaction

• Enhance postgraduate & research facilities

• Innovative social-learning spaces

• Expand residential and sporting provision

• Create inspiring environments

• Optimise/modernise office space

£100m+ over 10 years

We will develop a vibrant campus life at each site, extend access, improve usage, and enrich our local communities.

• Expand Craiglockhart to include conference and

exhibition/archive facilities

• Invest in new facilities for Engineering and the Built

Environment

• Develop Merchiston as a hub for computing and the

creative industries

• Promotions & Award of Title 2015• Voluntary Severance Scheme

• Strategic Change Board

• Some personal reflections– 360 degree feedback– leading through change

We can expect bumps…

• Our lives will change between now and 2020

• Staff will be supported and developed

• We will provide unparalleled opportunities for our students

• We will be recognised / talked about as ‘the place to be’

Confidence & Belief

Back to our future

Dr Emmett Brown

“Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one!”

Q&A

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Grow our Academic Reputation

NSS, PTES & PRES

Academic development

Research applications

Postgraduate growth

Feedback

Opportunities

Enhanced services

Widening participation

Excellent personalised student experience

Strategic approach

Social innovation

Employability

Continuous improvement

Innovation, enterprise & citizenship

Internationalisation

International operations

Student recruitment

Internationalised environment

Transnational education

Our 2015/16 Plan

CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION

NSS, PTES & PRES

Academic development

Research applications

Feedback

Postgraduate growth

Opportunities

Enhanced services

Widening participation

Strategic approach

Social innovation

Employability

International operations

Continuous Improvement

Student recruitment

Environment

Transnational Education

Academic workload framework

Estates strategyReward & recognition

Staff engagement New fees package

Marketing strategy

Student target setting

eServices for students

Online 1st for staff

New website & intranet

ACADEMIC REPUTATION

STUDENT EXPERIENCE

INNOVATION, ENTERPRISE, CITIZENSHIP

INTERNATIONALISATION