Global ambition
Global connectivity has never been more important to the University’s ambitions. To truly make a difference in the world, we need to attract the brightest minds, the most talented students, and provide access to top facilities.
These connections help us grow as a learning community and create an environment where interdisciplinary and mission-oriented research thrives. By working together across borders, we can tackle the world’s pressing challenges facing the human and natural world and expose and interrogate prejudices and injustices wherever they are found.
Our Global Engagement Strategy 2024-2030 aligns the University’s vision with a global focus on people, place, and purpose. Rooted in Ambition, Integrity, and Respect, our Global Strategy ensures responsible global engagement guided by academic values and ethics while respecting local contexts.
Reputational enhancement
We’ll enhance our global reputation by boosting visibility, forming strategic partnerships, and embracing a values-led approach. We’re making international collaboration the norm, strengthening our employer brand, and embedding our community into global networks. Strong governance will keep our international activities secure and sustainable.
More than 110,000 alumni across 180 countries.
Global learning community
Our objectives for developing a single global learning community are grouped under three ‘internationalisation-at-home’ headings.
Values, culture and environment
We're committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive culture, ensuring strong support for diversity across race, faith, nationality, and ethnicity. We want to help international staff and students build lasting connections with our institution. Our aim is to ensure that, as far as possible, student cohorts are diverse and the University retains its attractiveness as a place of employment for international academic and professional service staff.
Curricula and pedagogy
We'll equip staff with the skills and support to engage diverse, multinational student cohorts. We're embedding sustainability, inclusivity, and intercultural perspectives into our teaching. Our aim is to ensure our curricula reflects our core values, support international students' academic and career goals, and celebrates diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Through external partnerships, we'll integrate work-based learning and transferable employability skills into both curricula and co-curricular activities.
Support
We’re developing capacity to have a ‘one-stop-shop’ providing timely, tailored assistance for international staff and students. By helping students build academic, linguistic, and professional skills, we'll ensure they thrive in our learning environment and future careers. At the same time, we’re expanding global engagement opportunities for academics, professional staff, and students at all levels.
University of Stirling students celebrating graduation at our partner institution, Singapore Institute of Management.
Financial sustainability
This pillar is focused on building financial sustainability in our overseas income and recruitment streams. Here's how we'll do that:
- Mitigate the effect of potential market volatility by maintaining, where appropriate, two intakes a year, targeting growth in non-restricted undergraduate recruitment, and working to agreed targets balancing on-shore and partnership recruitment in each of our priority markets.
- Reducing financial risk by maintaining a diverse geographic mix in our on-shore recruitment.
- Maintain and develop innovative, relevant degree and short course portfolios, tailored to international market demand.
- Diversify income streams by doubling the surplus derived from institutional partnerships.
- Double the income generated by co-curricula activities by enhancing the attractiveness, scale and diversity of our summer school and co-curricula offerings.
- Develop an international element to our alumni and advancement activities.
- Further enhance our systems, processes, reporting and monitoring tools to enable the University to adopt agile, data-driven responses to actual or latent developments in the external environment.
Staff and students performing Tai Chi at Chengdu University Stirling College.