From Vision 2020 to Vision 2030

Environmental scan

Global impact of COVID-19 pandemic

Online learning and the digital

divide

Future world of work

Gender discrimination,

inequality and GBV

Lifelong learning and upskilling Economic recovery

Employment and livelihood crises

Green growth and sustainability

Urbanisation and human

settlements

Access to quality healthcare

Legislative mandate

State of the University

Themes emerging from stakeholder inputs•A sense of pride and responsibility that comes with the powerful and impactful value of the University’s name. Need to position the University globally.University name

•Move beyond rhetoric and posters – leadership, students, employees and alumni need to LIVE the values of Nelson Mandela. A humane “face”.Living the values

•Prioritise holistic student and employee wellbeing – mental health, safety & security, eradicate GBV & discrimination, etc.Holistic wellbeing

•The role of the university in cultivating ethical, responsible, visionary and socially conscious leadership.Visionary leadership

•University must be known for quality academic programmes, particularly in certain niche areas, and improved PG enrolments and research outputs.

Academic excellence & societal impact

•Need for vibrant living and learning spaces on all campuses and student centric approaches to facilitate student access for success. Sport, residences, Vibrant student life

•Foster graduate employability, entrepreneurship and innovation – provide ecosystem of support to translate innovative ideas into viable enterprises.

Solutions-driven innovation

•Improve efficiencies and agility of services and processes through digitalisation. Modernise infrastructure.

Digitalisation & modernised infrastructure

•Need to diversify funding sources in light of economic realities – rising student debt, declining government subsidy and student tuition fee regulation. Sustainability

Our core messages

Vision 2030 strategic framework

Scholarship of learning & teaching

Engaged scholarship with global

impact

RESEARCH, INNOVATION & INTERNATIONALISATION

Pursue impactful, pioneering research, innovation and

internationalisation to address grand societal challenges and promote sustainable futures

Student centric

approaches for access &

success

Engaged learning & teaching

Vision 2030 strategic focus areas

Vision 2030 graduate attributes

FOUNDATIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND LITERACIES

LEARNING AND INNOVATION COMPETENCIES

LIFE AND CAREER SKILLS

Core disciplinary depth, interdisciplinary breadth and synthesis,knowledge creation, multiple literacies (academic, digital,numeracy, civic, etc) & transformative competencies

Intellectual curiosityCritical thinkingInnovation and creativityCommunicationCollaboration

Professionalism and integrityResilience and persistenceAdaptive expertiseSocially conscious, responsible global citizensProgressive agency

Vision 2030 integrated planning

Faculties Divisions

Individual annual performance plans

Vision 2030 strategyUniversity Strategy -reviewed every five years

Faculties, divisions, campuses and entities develop five-year strategic and annual performance plans aligned to V2030 –reviewed annually

Informs five-year strategic plans

Executive Management portfolio strategic plans

Informs five-year strategic plans

Entities

Each executive management portfolio develops five-year strategic plans aligned to Vision 2030 –reviewed annually

Informs annual performance plans

Campuses

Individual performance plans aligned with annual performance plans of organisational units

Integrated planning

Academic & enrolment planning

Infrastructure planning (digital & physical)

Budgeting & resource

allocation

Human resource planning

Monitoring, evaluation, reporting &

learning

Vision 2030 strategy

2021-2025 2026-2030

Vision 2030 planning architecture

20252024202320222021

Two rolling five-year strategic plans

Five one-year Annual Performance Plans

Academic size & shape

Resource mobilisation & allocation

Talent managementDigitalisation & infrastructure

Risk identification & management

M&E & reportingQuality advancement

informs

informs

Cascading Vision 2030STRATEGIC FOCUS AREA/ENABLER:

STRATEGIC GOAL:

DESIRED OUTCOME:

OUTPUTS INDICATORS RISKS ANDOPPORTUNITIES

RESOURCEIMPLICATIONS

INTER-DEPENDENCIES

MILESTONES

2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

SFA 1: Liberate human potentialthrough humanising, innovativelifelong learning experiences thatprepare graduates to be sociallyconscious, responsible globalcitizens who serve the public good

SFA 2: Pursue impactful,pioneering research, innovationand internationalisation to addressgrand societal challenges andpromote sustainable futures

SFA 3: Engage with all publics inequalising partnerships to co-create transformative, contextuallyresponsive solutions in pursuit ofsocial justice and equality

SFA 4: Catalyse dynamic, studentcentric approaches and practicesthat provide life-changing studentexperiences within and beyond theclassroom

SE 1: Ethical governance andleadership approaches and practicesthat embody the values of theUniversity and seek to promoteservice before self

SE 2: Inclusive, values-driveninstitutional culture to position theUniversity as an employer of choicefor talented and empoweredemployees

SE 3: Enabling innovation ecosystemwhere students and employees cancollaboratively engage with externalpartners to co-create pioneeringdiscoveries that advance the frontiersof knowledge and promote thepublic good

SE 4: Efficiencies and value creationthrough digitalisation, integratedsystems, agile service delivery, andmodernised infrastructure

SE 5: Long-term sustainabilitythrough strategy-aligned resourcemobilisation and responsiblestewardship

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