St Mary's Launches Ambitious Plan for the Future

St Mary’s University, Twickenham, has launched an ambitious new plan for the future, Vision 2025. This vision is rooted in St Mary’s core mission as an inclusive Catholic University which seeks to develop the whole person and empower its community to have a positive impact on the world. The plan includes key objectives to:

• Invest £100m in students and staff, including through the development of improved facilities for learning and research as well as new accommodation and sports grounds;

• Develop research and enterprise capacity alongside a renewed emphasis on teaching excellence;

• Increase the diversity of students and staff without undermining the powerful sense of community that characterises St Mary’s;

• Expand St Mary’s national and international reach including through the development of new partnerships with overseas universities; and

• Build on St Mary’s high level of student satisfaction to be the most welcoming learning community in the UK.

Built around St Mary’s core values of inclusiveness, generosity of spirit, respect, and excellence, Vision 2025 is rooted in people and place. The plan outlines five strategies; Education, Engagement, International, Research and Enterprise, and Student Recruitment, to guide St Mary’s so that it is widely recognised for the quality of its diverse, inclusive and enabling academic environment.

Chancellor of St Mary’s University Cardinal Vincent Nichols said, "I value St Mary's most highly, not only for its long tradition of Catholic Higher Education, but also because it represents a most important point of contact, of engagement, between the world of Higher Education in this country and the Catholic Church. The Catholic tradition and vision of education is a long adventure and it is a great joy to me to see it being developed, with such vigor, at St Mary's University."

Vice-Chancellor of St Mary’s Francis Campbell said, “Vision 2025 is the culmination of 18 months consultation with staff and students about who we are as an institution and where we need to go in the future.

“A recurring theme in the conversations we had was the powerful sense of community that people associate with St Mary’s. But that doesn’t come from nowhere – it is founded on the underlying values that derive from our Catholic identity – inclusiveness, generosity of spirit, respect and excellence. This distinctive set of values is what has made St Mary’s the welcoming and vibrant place it is today, and will ensure we continue to grow in the future.”

To download a copy of Vision 2025 or to find out more about St Mary’s please visit our website www.stmarys.ac.uk/Vision-2025.