Vision, Mission & Core Values
Vision
Our vision focuses on research and being a leading career-led and applied college of higher education. We endeavour to support our students to achieve outstanding outcomes. We provide an integrated approach to learning with employment which results in our students being employment ready well-rounded graduates ready for the world of work. They will equipped to contribute in shaping their career and engaging with a rapidly changing world.
Mission
Our mission is embedded in our Research foundation, Doctoral College UK is a diverse and inclusive Higher Education College welcoming students from all backgrounds and beliefs, and believes in providing a transformational educational experience, changing and forming ours students whose careers will grow and continue to develop in the work and world.
Our focused is on delivering quality higher education with dignity and empathy that represent our core values. We endeavour to provide our students with a uniquely supportive professional educational learning environment, inspiring them to discover their own distinct capabilities, which enables them to realise their expectations and goals. Our academic leadership and governance promotes our commitment to social justice, enhancing opportunities, collaboration, and adding value to the lives of our students, staff, and College community.
Core values
Honesty, Transparency and Integrity – We nurture personal and collective accountability by organising our resources well and cultivating an awareness of our responsibility for the environment and the communities around us.
Dignity, Empathy and Wellbeing – We value and care about the contribution of everyone nurturing a community where students and staff can reach their full potential.
Knowledge, Innovation and Excellence – We endeavour to stimulate motivated scholarship and the pursuit of innovation and academic excellence by providing the highest standards of teaching, learning and research and by continuously improving on our performance.
Trust, Respect and Inclusivity – We build trust in our everyday activities doing what we say we are going to do and we demonstrate our inclusivity by promoting equality in the opportunities we offer, in the right of everyone to contribute and by cultivating a safe community rooted in a culture of mutual respect.
Widening Opportunity, Harmony and Commitment – We promote the Common Good by widening opportunity and participation, forming outward partnerships, and by making a positive contribution to society. We stimulate commitment to internal focus groups and global network discussion groups, we listen and actively get involved with discussions.