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ANNEX 1
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Higher Education Funding Council for
Wales: evidence to the Richard Commission
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| Evidence |
Annex 2
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Our mission is to promote internationally
excellent higher education in Wales, for the benefit
of individuals, society and the economy, in Wales and
more widely.
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Working with partners, we deploy funds
from the Welsh Assembly Government and others in order
to:
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- secure higher education learning and research of
the highest quality;
- maximise the contribution of higher education to
the culture, society and economy of Wales;
- ensure high quality, accredited teacher training
provision across Wales
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Strategic Aims
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| We have six core strategic aims: |
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The ‘Deal for Students’: |
Research Excellence: |
Benefiting the Economy and Society: |
Initial Teacher Training: |
| delivering wider participation and
access in support
of social inclusion and economic upskilling |
delivering the highest quality learning
and related support |
delivering improved research
performance to underpin the knowledge
economy and cultural and
social renewal |
delivering more productive
relationships between higher education institutions and the public and private sectors,
other agencies and local communities |
delivering newly qualified
teachers of high quality |
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Making it Work:
a strong emphasis on reconfiguration, collaboration,
and other measures to sustain improved performance of
individual institutions and the higher education system
as a whole
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| Delivery of these strategic aims will be done in
clear and positive support of the Assembly’s crosscutting
themes of:
Social inclusion
Equality
Sustainable Development`
Bilingualism
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Source Division: Richard Commission
Author Name: Alyson Thomas
Date:
May 2003. |
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