Our Strategic Vision
Our mission
Our mission is to educate and inspire students from all backgrounds, equipping them to thrive as professionals and contribute to animal, human and planetary health.
Drawing on the combined expertise and resources of two leading Universities together with a vibrant multi-disciplinary network we seek to drive positive change in our industry and realise impact in vital areas of unmet need.
Our values
Inclusive: We are a community with a sense of belonging, where every role is valued.
Empowering: We provide a personalised learning culture with multiple pathways to opportunity, and a willingness to challenge.
Collaborative: We believe that innovative partnerships and collaboration achieve the best results.
Dynamic: We encourage an agile and flexible approach to navigate a changing landscape.
Sustainable: We have built a new model of veterinary education, designed to address the challenges faced by our planet, people, and economies.
Our Strategic Vision:
Empowering students
Our aim is to provide a consistently outstanding student experience, empowering our learners to become confident and capable graduates, comfortable with change and able to thrive in the profession and beyond.
Drawing on the proven excellence in teaching at both Harper Adams and Keele universities, and our close relationships with veterinary practices, related businesses, agencies, and charities, we will prepare and develop a new generation of vets who have the skills, drive, and resources to shape the veterinary profession of tomorrow.
What we are going to do
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Create a collaborative and personalised learning culture with inclusion built-in and multiple pathways to opportunity. |
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Confident and capable graduates armed with the skills they need to follow a path of lifelong learning, employed in a range of professional roles. |
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Harness and fund technology, building on our digital platforms to enhance learning and career development. |
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Students enabled to thrive irrespective of their background and resources. Graduates who are prepared to embrace the latest technology, understanding how it can be implemented to drive improvements in the profession. |
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Work closely with Consort E3 and Garden Vets to realise the potential of a fully integrated digitally enabled learning and research environment. |
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Veterinary professionals exposed to a broad and challenging range of experiences, who are able to adapt and innovate. |
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Develop an innovative approach to workplace performance and wellbeing through our Contextual Developmental Approach (CDA). |
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A programme fully competency-mapped to our wellbeing and professional performance principles. Graduates who are equipped to deal with the stressors inherent in the profession. |
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Provide a curriculum that is aligned to contemporary professional environments, ensuring students are working with industry colleagues. |
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Graduates who are confident and capable to enter different working environments, understand the challenges and how to overcome them, and use their experience to be a strong voice within the industry. Informed individuals constructively guided to establish professional identity, competence and capability in a safe and sustainable way. |
Our Strategic Vision:
Realising all potential
At the heart of our Vet School is community, where every role is valued and respected. We have built an environment that embraces inter-professionalism, from creating the Veterinary Education Centre as a hub for veterinary professionals, to ensuring our students benefit from the knowledge and expertise of those working in the widest range of allied professions and disciplines.
We will fully support widening student participation (WP) with a tailored and ambitious programme to align with our broader aims.
Our aim is to continue to provide the right environment and resources to realise all potential in our student body, colleagues, and wider collaborations, and to ensure every member of our team is given the opportunity to thrive.
What we are going to do
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Develop a pre-application Future Vet pathway to support WP applicants and widen our WP criteria to include the full Office for Students definition of WP groups. |
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A wider and more diverse pool of applicants to HKVS and other vet schools through the removal of as many barriers as possible. |
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Ensure that we continue to support our students on their journey through the Vet School, providing the right support at the right time. |
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Moving towards a minimal attainment gap as students progress through the School. |
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Raise awareness of the breadth of roles and opportunities within the industry, providing information, exposure, and experience for students to choose their own path in the veterinary profession. |
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Graduates who remain in the profession, choosing a route that suits their skills, needs and passions. Graduates who are fully cognisant of the agri-food industry and the key roles played by official veterinarians and production animal practices in the sector. Understanding that their career may be multi-faceted and giving them the confidence to take on new challenges. |
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Develop and implement an integrated talent management programme for colleagues. |
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Supported, individualised career development to attract and retain the best talent and foster effective succession planning. |
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Create specialist programmes that address current and future needs within the profession and industry. |
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Knowledge exchange and impact in areas of unmet need, support for career development for our own colleagues and others. Diversified income streams. |
Our Strategic Vision:
Thriving through collaboration
Our Vet School is predicated on collaboration and the benefits of strategically integrated partnerships. As we develop and are ambitious to grow, we can only achieve success in a very challenging environment by carefully developing partnerships where strong engagement, shared values and mutual benefit are designed in.
Building on the already extensive work with both universities and partners fundamental to our model, we aim to maximise the opportunities these present, and carefully build and expand our network aligned to our strategic goals.
What we are going to do
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Combining excellence – continue to strengthen the relationship with, and between, Harper Adams and Keele universities and contribute to institutional growth and reputation. |
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Operational efficiencies, sharing best practice and new opportunities. Increased financial contribution and investment. An enhanced reputation with associated markers of esteem. |
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Long-term economic stability through diversified income streams by embracing future partnerships with industry and the third sector. |
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Sustainable growth that does not impact the quality of education and addresses the challenges of veterinary education funding. Provide an opportunity for our students to work collaboratively, recognising the benefits of knowledge exchange. |
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Strengthen our strategic educational and research partnerships building upon the unique Garden Vets model and our wider educational blueprint and developing a focused international strategy. |
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Mutual benefits from targeted knowledge exchange, creating impact in our strategic focus areas. A talent pipeline and opportunities for colleague mobility, enabling colleagues and students to study and work in different regions to share best practice, expand scope of work and develop cultural competence. Co-investment opportunities. Development of intellectual property benefitting the School, our institutions, and our partners. |
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Build strong alumni relationships. |
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Graduates and former colleagues who stay connected as part of our community and continue to contribute to the life and success of the Vet School. Creation of a culture amongst the next generation of employers ready to nurture our students and new graduates. |
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Achieve professional body accreditations and work with them to help evolve best practice and the adoption of new approaches. |
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A quality assured Vet School that can welcome students from the widest backgrounds. A diversified portfolio of accredited programmes to help drive our growth and generate investment. |
Our Strategic Vision:
Driving applied research
From creating a first-of-its-kind advanced primary care teaching hospital with education and research central to the operational model, to developing an innovative approach to workplace performance and wellbeing through our Contextual Developmental Approach, our research will make an impact in the veterinary profession and beyond.
Our aim is to be both nationally and internationally recognised for research within our three strategic themes:
- Sustainable livestock health and welfare
- Wellbeing and professional performance
- Excellence in primary care research and practice
What we are going to do
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Focus investment and resources into our strategic themes and make full use of our network of resources and expertise in a global web of opportunities. |
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Generate research income from research bids and collaborations focused on our key strategic themes. Maximising the impact of our work and the efficiency of our investment through established and identified new networks. Shared knowledge with cognate disciplinary groups and impact in areas such as food security and our strategic focus. |
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Create a centre of excellence in integrated veterinary public health, pathology and production animal health and work with government and industry to develop a skills programme. |
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Enhance the provision of skills development in this area of critical national importance and develop new approaches to allied roles and innovative technologies driving industry impact and inward investment. |
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Continually analyse and validate our integrated model of primary care education and research through scholarship. |
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Understand and validate new models using an evidence-based approach, using and adapting the lessons learned to benefit practice and knowledge exchange. |
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Engage all students in impactful practice-based research projects and align with the development of postgraduate research activities. |
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Research-literate graduates who can contribute to the ongoing development and exchange of knowledge whatever their future career destination. Support and enhance research and innovation in our strategic areas through postgraduate studentships and internships. |
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