The foundation of this vision and strategic plan are our three core goals – research and discovery, teaching and learning, and social responsibility – summed up in our motto, “Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity”, which build on our strengths and take the University in a new direction.
It points to a future where we scale up our world-leading research to tackle our toughest global problems, leverage our interdisciplinary research capabilities, and transform the way students learn to produce the most employable graduates and truly global citizens, ensuring that everything we do has a positive impact on society.
The strategic plan builds on the University of Manchester's defining characteristics: excellence, openness, inclusivity, long-standing commitment to social responsibility, its scale and breadth, its tradition of innovation, its very close links to Manchester and its central location.
We built our vision and strategic plan on the basis of extensive consultation with colleagues, students, alumni, and local and national stakeholders. This approach ensured the sharing of ideas and allowed us to test the durability of the priorities we identified. It also allowed us to explore and refine how we deliver them.
This is a substantive vision and strategic plan backed by detailed implementation plans. Our success is evidenced through independent measurement of our core activities.
Universities like ours are ideally positioned to address many of the world's major challenges: achieving environmental sustainability, reducing social inequalities, improving health, informing and empowering citizens, and finding new ways to prepare future leaders.
“While the plan is broad in scope and ambitious in many ways, each theme has clear priorities and measurable outcomes. We will, of course, be agile and adaptable to external changes, but we will maintain the ambition we set out here to ensure we are well positioned for the future.”
Nancy Rothwell, President and Vice Chancellor
Edward Astle, Chairman of the Board
