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Introduction

Professor Bruce Macfarlane 
Dean, FEHD

Our Recent Success

Our new Faculty strategy (2025-2028) builds on the solid foundations laid by our first strategy between 2022-2025. Over the last three years we have seen the Faculty make important strides. These include:

  • a strengthening of our position in world rankings for education by subject (e.g. 12th in the QS World University Rankings for education and training in 2025)

  • a major increase in our student population via the expansion of taught postgraduate provision

  • the establishment of a virtual interdisciplinary research centre focusing on global educational challenges 

  • an improved representation of female full professors within the Faculty

  • the introduction of more flexible working practices and better retention among professional support staff

Our Future Vision

Our new Faculty strategy has again been co-created through a bottom-up process based on the initial development of department strategies. We have learnt from our last strategy by including key performance indicators (KPIs) based on S.M.A.R.T. principles to ensure that they are specific, measurable, actionable, relevant and timely. Our new strategy will help us to focus our collective efforts on a number of key Faculty priorities including:

  • integrating the use of AI and learning technologies into our teaching and enhancing the authentic learning experience of our students

  • continuing to improve the quality of our research outputs, grant bidding success and societal impact

  • addressing sustainable development goals more centrally in our teaching and research, especially SDG 3, 4, 10 and 17

  • recruiting more international students, and making further agreements with prestigious research-intensive universities around the world to increase opportunities for inbound and outbound student exchange and staff research collaborations 

  • growing the Faculty’s reputation in the Greater Bay Area, the mainland, the region and internationally

  • strengthening awareness and understanding of issues related to equity, diversity and inclusion within the Faculty

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I look forward to working with you all to make our new Faculty strategy a success.

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