New VC Nick Klomp is asking the CQU community about the draft strategic plan for 2019-23, which makes sense, given its called, “Our future is you”
The discussion will likely be less analysis than agree-a-thon given, in the way of university plans, it is heavy on aspirations and objectives, with details on structure and programmes absent. But there are a bunch of examples of what Professor Klomp wants done when the work starts, including:
* “full-spectrum curriculum” from school to postgrad with work-based learning “embedded”
* a “real-time” student feedback system to support CQU teachers
* courses “informed” by research and collaboration with industry and government
* “user-friendly, real-time data systems” for staff self-improvement
* more higher degree students
Good-o but Professor Klomp outlined what is probably a first priority in his inaugural address to staff, back in February, when he talked about, “the cultural-educational walls.”
“Industry does not care about the labels and our arbitrary educational distinctions – they just want the best job-ready workforce we can give them. If that’s engineering graduates with welding skills, let’s give that to them. … If that is beauty therapists with business and accounting skills, let’s go there,” he said (CMM February 8). Which sounds like it needs a plan all of its own.