QUT Blueprint 3

Blueprint 3: the context The Blueprint's role is to identify major priorities, articulate broad strategies, and drive greater coherence and coordination of our efforts. Blueprint 3 aims to guide OUT against a backdrop in which today's universities are challenged and invigorated by:

• growing public expectations for performance, accountability, quality and relevance • increased pressures on public funding • dynamic domestic and international economic and demographic environments • an increasingly competitive and volatile global education and research scene • generational change • new cohorts of students bringing new expectations and requirements • rapid growth of new higher education providers • a national agenda to expand higher education access, particularly among people from low socioeconomic backgrounds and Indigenous Australian communities • new national regulatory arrangements • the need to understand, adapt and transform societal responses to the challenges of sustainability • an imperative to selectively concentrate areas of research investment • rapid technological changes, presenting opportunities to enhance and even transform our work, but often with attendant financial and management risks.

Blueprint 3 both reaffirms and sharpens our strategic directions and recalibrates our aspirations. It also renews our commitment to the idea of an engaged university which makes a real and positive difference to its students and to people in the wider community. Blueprint 3 sets out priorities for the next five years, strategies and targets for our three spheres of activity (students, learning and teaching; research and innovation; and people, culture and sustainability), and key performance indicators (KPls). Page 10 sets out QUT's statement of vision and values and page 11 illustrates our schedule of key performance indicators.