Town House Strategy
Society is changing at pace and employers need graduates who bring the Future Skills most valued by industry into the workplace. Find out how we are transforming our students’ education through our visionary Town House Strategy.
What is the Town House Strategy?
Find out how we are transforming our teaching to equip students with the Future Skills needed by industry through our visionary Town House Strategy.
We are:
Ensuring students develop the Future Skills and personal attributes most valued by industry to thrive in their careers.
Partnering with businesses and external bodies to support innovation and knowledge.
Focusing our research, knowledge exchange and professional practice where it can have impact and drive innovation through our Knowledge Exchange and Research Institutes.
Providing a collaborative, innovative, and high-performing working environment for our staff.
Want to learn more?
Read more about our heritage and the themes that underpin our visionary Strategy.
Our vision
Our vision is for Kingston University to be sought after by students and staff as a place to further their ambitions and to have impact on our communities. Our students and staff will be sought after for their skills, knowledge and ability to innovate.
Our mission
Our mission is to enhance students' life chances, support staff ambitions and strengthen Kingston University's impact on industry, policy and the professions to enable a sustainable future socially, economically and environmentally.
Celebrating our values
Our values serve as guiding principles that define the University's character – reflecting our unique identity, mission and vision. We are proud to be ambitious, inclusive, innovative and enterprising.
Ambitious
We pursue excellence for individuals, the University and our communities.
Inclusive
We value the diversity of students and staff, treating all our community with respect.
Innovative
We apply new methods or ideas to drive progress.
Enterprising
We recognise and act on opportunities.
Town House Strategy sets clear direction
"Through the Town House Strategy we are transforming our students' education by embedding the Future Skills sought by business and the professions across our curriculum.
It is also giving greater prominence, visibility and support to research and knowledge exchange and creating a culture of high performance that is ambitious, inclusive, innovative and enterprising.
The Strategy will ensure our graduates, our staff and the University itself are sought after. Students will seek to broaden their knowledge and skills at Kingston University because it will help them make the most of their higher education. Staff will choose to work here because they can be effective, innovative and develop their careers. Businesses, organisations and government bodies will seek to partner with us because of our approach, expertise and values."
— Professor Steven Spier, Vice-Chancellor, Kingston University
Leading the way with Future Skills
At Kingston University we’re preparing our students for career success in a rapidly evolving world of work. Central to our Town House Strategy ambitions is the roll out of Future Skills across the curriculum, founded on our sector-leading Future Skills campaign.
Informed by research with leading businesses, every student on every undergraduate course is being equipped with, and assessed on, nine core skills identified by employers as the ones they most value throughout their degree studies.
Find out more about our sector-leading Future Skills programme.
Shaping the political debate
As the United Kingdom’s leading university for Future Skills, our campaign has been helping to shape the skills agenda in UK political circles.
We have launched our Future Skills reports in the Houses of Parliament during events attended by MPs from across the political spectrum – highlighting cross-party support for our sector-leading Future Skills programme.
Driving impact of our world class research and knowledge exchange
We have introduced four Knowledge Exchange and Research Institutes (KERIs) as part of our Town House Strategy ambitions to deliver greater impact and wider collaboration across our areas of excellence. The KERIs are all about making connections – whether that's bringing together individuals and communities across research areas or enabling staff from across Faculties to collaborate on innovative, interdisciplinary projects.
Through this approach, we can respond quickly to new opportunities in a rapidly changing world that is becoming ever more interconnected through emerging technologies.