The Strategic Plan 2006 - 2009 continues the development of UTS as a vibrant learning community. This requires high quality, effective teaching, a strong research culture that underpins the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge, and a social and physical environment that supports students and staff in achieving their potential.

The combined Setting the Pace (the University's mission, vision and guiding principles statement) and the complete UTS Strategic Plan for 2006 - 2009 can be found at: UTS Setting the Pace 2006 - 2009 Strategic Directions for the Current Decade (pdf 115KB). The themes and objectives that relate to the teaching and learning performance domain are listed below. Initial major strategies that will be pursued to achieve the themes and the objectives are also indicated. These will be assessed annually as part of the UTS planning cycle, and revised as required. This review will be informed by performance against UTS Key Performance Indicators. Council approved the UTS Key Performance Indicators at meeting 05/02 18.4.05.

Theme 1

UTS IS DISTINGUISHED BY ITS IMAGINATIVE AND COLLABORATIVE APPROACHES TO PRACTICE - ORIENTED TEACHING AND LEARNING, AND OUTCOMES - ORIENTED RESEARCH AND CREATIVE PRACTICE

Objective 1

Increase graduate preparedness to pursue successful careers in a changing professional workplace

Strategies:

Engage students and staff with the professions, industry, business and the community to maximise opportunities for interaction and knowledge sharing;
Undertake, assess and integrate research on professional knowledge into teaching and learning;
Drive innovation and renewal of the curriculum to anticipate and reflect changing knowledge and professions, including emerging fields of knowledge and practice;
Provide practice-oriented and international experiences that provide a coherent relationship between learning and practice;
Provide opportunities for students to engage where appropriate with the international and culturally diverse dimensions of their field of study.
Create an external engagement framework that supports the virtuous cycle of teaching and learning, research and innovation, partnership and the delivery of educational outcomes.

Theme 2

UTS IS INTERNATIONAL, INTELLECTUALLY CHALLENGING AND NURTURES BOTH STUDENT AND STAFF CAPABILITY

Objective 3

Improve the quality of teaching

Strategies

Develop communities of UTS teaching practice that increase the exchange of ideas and the dissemination of good practice;
Use research on learning and feedback on teaching to identify good practice and inform UTS teaching standards;
Improve supporting mechanisms for students and staff that enable effective teaching and learning;
Attract and retain excellent academics whose high quality teaching will strengthen the national and international profile of UTS teaching and learning;
Increase our capacity to identify, recognise and reward effective teaching and learning.

Theme 3

UTS HAS A VIBRANT SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

Objective 7 (with Registrar)

Maintain an effective, helpful and sustainable learning environment for all students.

Strategies

Ensure informed and effective implementation of technology, information and physical resources and infrastructure to improve learning, social and intellectual outcomes by students;
Improve the quality of academic administrative infrastructure to support course and career planning by students;
Promote inclusive learning practices and infrastructure that recognise the diversity of students and their range of needs;
Develop and implement an approach to improving the economic, social and environmental sustainability of the University's operations.