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Our Aim

Strong relationships with our students will strengthen their engagement, support student success, and encourage life-long learning with UNE. This relationship will be built on a model of timely and relevant engagement, support and collaboration that recognises and responds to individual experiences, goals and challenges, enriched by access to communities of learning and professional practice that enables every student to reach their own versions of success throughout their lives, prepared for the challenges of future social, environmental and economic change.

Our Focus Areas

Care

Fostering an integrated, supportive and personalised model of support and engagement to meet the needs of students along their life-long student journey.

Communication

Ensuring that communication with students is personalised, timely and relevant to support them on the path to success.

Collaboration

Facilitating learning and professional communities and encouraging collaboration with the University in their development and implementation.

Career-ready

Enabling innovative approaches to recognising student achievement, career-readiness, career transition and career progression.

Strategic Initiatives

These are the initiatives identified to enable the goals of the Future Fit plan. Initiatives will be managed through the Project Delivery Group (PDG). UNE staff can access a list of strategic initiatives by visiting the Strategic Projects List on the staff site.

Personalised Student Journeys
  • As a part of the student blueprint, develop a UNE Membership Model to support access to UNE courses, services and facilities pre and post enrolment.
  • Offer incentives to encourage life-long student engagement with UNE.
  • Establish Communities of Practice in which all students and graduates are able to participate.
  • Develop in conjunction with partners, multiple entry, exit and enabling pathways for all students, including HDR candidates.
  • Enhance applicant and student systems to ensure timely and nimble response to demand.
  • Draw on UNE’s Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) to inform course development and delivery, including assessment, research and communications and service design.
  • Enhance our blueprint for the student journey with a focus on the needs of individual cohorts.
  • Deepen life-long engagement with all students through effective, targeted communication strategy supported by robust and timely data.
  • Develop a scalable, personalised academic and student support and pastoral care model underpinned by robust and timely data.
  • Review and renew UNE’s approach to HDR supervision, candidate management, progress and reporting and examination.
  • Expand our online support and supervision to further enable in country, off-shore, PHDI.
  • Embed as part of new course development or course renewal, multiple AQF qualifications within the assessment framework of identified courses.
  • Develop modularised unit content, short-courses and micro-credentialing and/or badging to enhance UNE’s dynamic award and non-award offerings.
  • Review UNE’s Graduate Attributes and our approach to credentialing successful attainment of attributes as they are achieved.
  • Support staff to deliver a comprehensive academic and research integrity approach.
  • Develop a decision framework for establishment of international and domestic place-based offerings and partnerships that are supplementary to our core digital offering.
  • Refine and implement place-based solutions in identified communities.
  • Contextualise UNE’s academic offering aligned with the needs and aspirations of identified communities.
  • Develop a UNE co-design framework and aligned skill-base to enable student, partner, industry, community and alumni involvement in course design.
Empowering Communities
  • Review UNE’s Graduate Attributes and our approach to credentialing successful attainment of attributes as they are achieved.
  • Implement a UNE-wide teaching development program, including current staff, teaching fellows and HDR candidates.
  • Implement a comprehensive academic integrity approach in line with the TEQSA Academic Integrity Framework.
  • Develop a leading-edge digital library experience.
  • Establish the New England Graduate School to improve the quality of HDR supervision and support.
  • Develop a UNE co-design framework and aligned skill-base to enable student, partner, industry, community and alumni involvement in research.
  • Establish new UNE Research Institutes with support from external support to enhance our reach in the community, facilitate partnerships and attract external research funding.
  • Establish an Alumni Volunteer Program including Mentoring.
Building Resilience
  • Review and renew enterprise systems to reduce transaction costs and improve efficiency across all UNE functions.
  • Review and revise as required UNE policy and procedure to reduce duplication and inefficiency and align with UNE’s strategic direction.
  • Develop and deploy a UNE co-design framework and aligned skill-base to enable partner, industry and community strategic partnerships for systems and built infrastructure.
  • Implement an outcome focused Institutional Quality Framework.
  • Review and optimise Business Processes.