Strategic plan
Read about our objectives and how we respond to external trends and challenges.
Transform lives by delivering:
- world-class multi-sector education available to all
- world leading research in our priority areas
- positive career and life impact
- broad access, diversity and inclusion, acknowledging our Indigenous heritage.
Enhance communities with:
- research that drives economic and social transformation from regional Australia to all of our communities
- meaningful, impactful and long-lasting partnerships with employers and industries
- transformative collaborations and partnerships with governments and community organisations
- exemplars of future-focused university towns in Australia.
Build a strong and sustainable university that has:
- high quality, impactful research aligned to educational programs
- high quality, relevant and profitable educational offerings
- first choice employer and destination for students in each of our communities.
- strong accountability and governance
- a focus on sustainability
- a dynamic and empowered workplace.
Our focus
- Relentless innovation and reinvention
- Technology in education
- Lifelong learning
- Geopolitical change
- Regions as drivers of economic revival
- Government policy
- Post-COVID economy
Read more about the key trends and challenges influencing our strategy.
- Build Australasia’s leading community-embedded university
- Offer Australia’s best multi-sector educational pathways and experience
- Understand and support learner diversity
- Become the partner of choice for regional employers and industry and government
- Grow the economic and cultural opportunities of the regions and communities we serve
- Create new ways of working together
- Transformational leadership
- Effective external stakeholder engagement
- Campus-based employment precincts
- Digital-first approach
- Rapid course development and renewal
- Short-cycle qualifications / microcredentials
- Analysis of education outcomes and trends
- Client-driven model for industry partnerships
- Shared infrastructure, assets and services
- Agile, specialised teams
- Continuous development of our people
- Modern business systems
- Governance, risk and project management
Read more about the capabilities needed to deliver our strategic responses.