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Strategic Plan response form

Please use this form to comment on Medr’s draft Strategic Plan.

You can use this form to comment on our draft Strategic Plan. However, please note that you cannot save information as you go along, so please ensure you don’t refresh or close this page before you submit your response.

The form should be completed alongside the draft Strategic Plan and the explanatory document.

A Word version of the form is available. Email any queries and your response to [email protected] by 23.59 on Friday, 25 October 2024.

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Part One: Legislative Duties and Evidence

1. The Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 places eleven strategic duties on Medr. To what extent do you agree that the Plan enables us to fulfil our duties?
Are there any duties that are under-represented in the Plan?
2. Our Plan needs to respond to the statement of strategic priorities for tertiary education and research and innovation issued to us by the Welsh Government. Does the Plan sufficiently address all of these priorities?
3. (i) Does the Plan take account of the need to eliminate discrimination, harassment, victimisation and any other conduct that is prohibited by or under the Equality Act 2010?
3. (ii) Does the Plan take account of the need to advance equality of opportunity between persons who share a protected characteristic and persons who do not share it?
3. (iii) Does the Plan take account of the need to foster good relations between persons who share a protected characteristic and persons who do not share it?
3. (iv) Does the Plan take account of the need to reduce the inequalities of outcome which result from socio-economic disadvantage?
4. Will the Plan contribute to the achievement of the national well-being goals set out in the Well-being of Future Generations Act 2015?
5. Are the aims and commitments in the Plan in accordance with the sustainable development principle?
6. In drafting this Plan, we have taken into account a wide range of evidence from published reports and statistics. Is there any additional evidence we need to reflect in the Plan?
7. Do you foresee any unintended consequences or negative impacts resulting from the Plan?

Part Two: Aims, Priorities and Opportunities

8. Medr’s vision states that we will work in close collaboration with our partners to enable a tertiary education and research system which is centred around the needs of learners, society and the economy with excellence, equality and engagement at its heart. Do the strategic aims in the Plan enable us to deliver on our vision?
9. Within each of the strategic aims in the Plan, there are founding commitments to be achieved within the first two years, and growth commitments to be developed over five years. Considering each of the strategic aims, are the founding and growth commitments correct?
10. What are the key priorities for current and future learners in the tertiary education and research sector in Wales? Are these sufficiently reflected in the Plan?
11. What are the key priorities for tertiary education providers in Wales in the next five years? Are these sufficiently reflected in the Plan?
13. Medr has a duty to promote collaboration throughout the tertiary education and research sector. To what extent does the Plan enable us to make the most of opportunities to collaborate?
14. We need to be ambitious about what we can achieve. However, the financial environment we are working in is challenging. We also recognise the establishment of Medr is a significant change for the sector and we are committed to ensuring a smooth transition. Considering the context we are working in, to what extent is the level of ambition in the Plan suitable?

Part Three: Our Ambitions

15a. Please consider the ambitions on page 4 of the Plan. To what extent do you agree with our long-term ambitions for success?

Part Four: Welsh Language

16. Does the Plan appropriately reflect the Welsh Government’s ambition to increase the number of Welsh speakers and increase the use of the Welsh language?
18a. Could the Plan be changed to increase positive effects, or decrease adverse effects on opportunities for persons to use the Welsh language?
18b. Could the Plan be changed to increase positive effects, or decrease adverse effects on treating the Welsh language no less favourably than the English language?
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