Leading the Way

We believe that universities have a responsibility to look ahead to important new problems and to offer intellectual leadership to society in response to them. We expect our staff to be leaders in their fields and in the governance of the University. We encourage students to think how they too can shape the world both now and in our future.

What are our goals?		Our priorities up to 2015	We will do this by...	Key measures of our success that we can benchmark our performance against (KPI number)
15	To be recognised as a University that sets national and international research agendas in response to the needs of society.	We need to: • Extend the horizons of our staff and students so that their ambitions are set in a global context. • Communicate our achievements and their impact more effectively and strategically.	• Developing a University Innovation, Impact and Knowledge Exchange Strategy. • Developing research agendas that enable us to contribute to solving major global challenges.	• Research Excellence Framework (REF) performance – methodology to be confirmed (KPI 18). • Percentage ratio of recurrent teaching and research grants from funding bodies to total income (KPI 2). • Number of overseas students per academic FTE (KPI 7).