Who we are
The University of Winchester is a confident and ambitious institution, aiming to provide transformational education and excellence in teaching and research. Our longstanding mission endures - to educate, to advance knowledge, and to serve the common good. Our values of the love of learning, making a difference, and individual and shared endeavour, help to shape our culture and identity, whilst also guiding our work. Each year, thousands of students graduate from the University’s programmes, on their path towards rewarding and enriching careers.
From its roots in 1840, the University has grown to be an institution of over 7,000 students and 800 members of staff, with an annual turnover in excess of £80m. We make a major contribution to industry, commerce and employment within Hampshire and the surrounding areas.
The University of Winchester is widely known for its strengths in preparing students for the world of work, often in public sector careers such as adult and children’s nursing, the allied health professions, policing, social work and teaching. In education, our primary and secondary initial teacher training programmes are rated by Ofsted as ‘outstanding’. Our portfolio is broad, and encompasses the arts, health, humanities, law and social sciences and much more.
Our campus offers attractive, modern facilities at the heart of the ancient City of Winchester, our landmark, award-winning West Downs Centre, opened a few years ago. We have also recently completed a multi-million-pound refit of our library and learning resources centre, following a grant from the Office for Students (OfS), and will shortly open a new fully accessible Moot Court, providing specialist space for students to train to enter the legal profession.
As a Community, We Value
The Love of Learning
As individuals and as a community, we seek to discover new ideas, and understand new perspectives. We pursue both a depth and breadth of knowledge. We celebrate academic excellence and intellectual challenge. We seek to understand the perspectives of others and we welcome respectful debate, listening to views which may differ from our own with interest and defending our own with reason and humanity.
Individual and Shared Endeavour
As individuals and as a community, we seek to bring our best to our work and our study. We commit to striving to be successful, to do things well and play our part. We recognise that excellence only comes with effort and persistence. We are confident and believe in ourselves, collectively and individually. We are a welcoming, professional and respectful community. We see working together in partnership – in our own community and beyond it – as key to expanding our horizons and creating opportunities.
Making a Difference
From our Church of England foundation in 1840, built upon deeply held principles of creating a better world for everyone through education, we continue to play our part to ensure lasting change in the communities we serve through transformational education, impactful research and enduring partnerships.
We make a difference by educating graduates who will create a better, fairer world with enthusiasm, energy and creativity. We make a difference undertaking and sharing research which will inform and enable lasting change. We make a difference to our world by committing to care for it and live in it sustainably. We make a difference to each other by behaving with humanity and respect, recognising that we each make a worthy contribution to a community which we value and of which we are all an important part.
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