My Vision of a Community University
Professor Craig MahoneyPrincipal & Vice Chancellor
Bruce’s Son
Beginning - Dreaming
Education - Believing
Career - Achieving
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Our purpose is to change lives, transform communities and encourage enterprise through outstanding, distinctive and progressive higher education.
Our focus is on personalised learning experiences supported by internationally recognised research and modern pedagogy. UWS graduates will be work-ready and contribute locally and globally.
The UWS Story
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Campuses in Ayr / Dumfries / Hamilton / Paisley
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University Purpose
Research & knowledge exchange Teaching & learning Enhancing information literacy Changing lives Economic drivers
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University Purpose
1. Students as partners in the learning, teaching and research process with staff;
2. Adding to the body of knowledge through creative research and scholarship;
3. Facilitating knowledge exchange to support the needs of people locally, nationally and internationally.
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Modern Higher Education
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Three principal changes have recently affected higher education:
1. Digital explosion
2. Funding
3. Internationalisation
Student Learning Journey
Varies according to university, student and mission
Affected by learning model– Pace, place, mode– Technology– Learning spaces
Breaking down barriers
“Universities often seem like walled off cities”
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Academic Staff
• Must research & publish outputs
• Explore everything including teaching
• Make findings known• Teach effectively +
qualified• Academic credibility • Continued development
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Students
Not mere recipients of teaching, but rather
• Investors in education• Partners in learning• Co-producers of knowledge• The expert student
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Community University Features
Academically capable, globally engaged – a common goal to succeed; closely involved with
the locality in a meaningful way ‘There for the people’ – students, staff, communities Promotes an exchange of skills and knowledge Maintains an outward focus and reshaped corporate
strategy to fit with the changing times An advocate for lifelong learning Widens access and promotes social inclusion
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A Community UniversityIs an anchor for society
Changes lives
Transforms communities
Encourages enterprise
Student Achievement Focus
Flexible curriculum & Flexible learning
Socially inclusive approach
All learners valued and supported
Pathways to HE enhanced
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Lifelong Learning and Widening Access
UWS has the highest number of MD20 & MD40 students in Scotland
27%
43%
17%
10%
3% 0%
UWS Students
Age 20 & under
Age 21-30
Age 31-40
Age 41-50
Age 51-60
Age 61 and over
1,800 + students over 40
400+ students over 50
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UWS: Widening Access
Ayr Dumfries Hamilton Paisley All Main campus
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Students by campus
AyrDumfriesHamiltonPaisleyAll Main campus
UWS has 4 main campuses serving major population centres in Scotland.
Over 7% of students studying off campus by distance learning or on 7 college campuses through partnership arrangements.
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UWS Widening Access
UWS Students’ Domicile
SIMD 20
SIMD 20-40
All Scottish Domiciled
Over 20% of our Scottish domiciled students are from SIMD 20 areas (20% most deprived areas, Scottish Index of Multiple deprivation)
Over 40% are form SIMD 40 areas (40% most deprived areas)
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Total Economic Impact of UWSTotal Economic Impact 2013/14 – GVA (£m)
Local Area Scotland
Total Core Impact 78.4 107.4
Total Student Impact 79.7 112.0
Total Knowledge Transfer Impact 6.3 12.4
Total Tourism Impact 0.3 0.6
Total Current Impact 164.7 232.4
Graduate Premium 105.0 305.3
Total Impact (inc. Grad Premium) 269.6 537.8
Source: BiGGAR Economics 2014
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What’s required?
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The Big Dream
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• “We look forward to a time when the new ideas on models of learning, on interdisciplinarity, integrated learning, on team pedagogy, on deep learning etc. will be mainstreamed, inspiring a new generation of students to reach levels of intellectual literacy that stretch them beyond merely ‘good enough’ to ‘excellent’.”
Improving the quality of teaching and learning in Europe’s HEIs, 2013
Suggested Changes
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ESF, 2012
So Where to Now?
“If you want things to stay the same, then things will have to change”
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‘The Leopard’ by Giuseppe di Lampedusa, 1958
Summary
• No absolute definition but…..• Leaders must take
responsibility for the lives entrusted to us
• Break down barriers to entry• Support the learner journey
regardless of starting point• Build strong and positive
community & business links• Encourage return ‘business…’
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Locard Principle
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