Strategic Plan 2025-2030
The Strategic Plan sets out our response to the Welsh Government’s strategic priorities for tertiary education and research.
Strategic Plan 2025-2030Strategic Plan 2025-2030
The Strategic Plan sets out our ambitions for a collaborative tertiary education and research sector that delivers high-quality learning and research, meeting the needs of the economy and society, improving participation rates in tertiary education, and creating more flexible pathways for learners.
Strategic Plan 2025-2030Strategic Plan 2025-2030
Our Strategic Plan sets out Medr’s response to the Welsh Government’s strategic priorities for tertiary education and research. It also takes account of the legislative requirements placed on us in the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022, and describes the way in which Medr plans to work to achieve them.
The Plan is also set in the context of us balancing the establishment of a new organisation and implementation of new legislative requirements in the short term, with setting our ambition and aspirations for the longer term.
The Plan was approved by Welsh Ministers on 25 February 2025.
Our Strategic Plan is based around founding and growth commitments for five strategic aims, as well as a foundation aim:
- Foundation Aim
To establish Medr as a highly-effective organisation and trusted regulator. - Strategic Aim 1
To focus the tertiary education sector around the needs of the learner. - Strategic Aim 2
To create a flexible and joined-up tertiary system where everyone can acquire the skills and knowledge they need for a changing economy and society. - Strategic Aim 3
To ensure learners receive the highest-quality provision in a tertiary education sector that strives for continuous improvement. - Strategic Aim 4
To grow internationally-acclaimed research and inspire innovation throughout the tertiary education sector. - Strategic Aim 5
To encourage greater use of the Welsh language, increasing demand for and participation in learning and assessment through the medium of Welsh.
Our consultation
We sought feedback about whether our proposed strategic aims and commitments reflected what partners and stakeholders believed would make a positive impact on the tertiary education and research sector in Wales. We sought views from a wide range of stakeholders, social partners, employers and community organisations as part of this consultation. We engaged with the employer voice, and ran learner feedback events, ensuring that the learner voice played a key part in developing the plan.
Following the responses to the consultation, we strengthened references to a number of areas in the final plan, including:
- additional learning needs
- developing social partnership
- the Welsh language and Welsh medium education
- a global outlook from a Welsh perspective.
We are currently developing its operational plan, and a measures and evaluation framework for how the organisation will deliver against it. These will be published later in 2025.
Consultation response report
We considered all responses to the consultation and wider involvement exercises, taking them into account when making amendments to the Plan. This summary report of consultation responses gives an opportunity to reflect how this has been done.
Consultation response reportReport on the Medr stakeholder engagement workshops
The Edge Foundation supported two stakeholder engagement sessions to gather views for Medr.
This document summarises the findings across the workshops.
Report on the Medr stakeholder engagement workshopsMedr Strategic Plan – consultation with learners
We commissioned Beaufort Research to carry out qualitative research among tertiary sector learners in order to: understand what is important to learners on their pathway through the tertiary sector; explore how Medr would effectively listen to the learner voice; get feedback on our strategic aims; and understand what learners would like to see as a result of Medr being set up.
Medr Strategic Plan consultation with learnersMedr Strategic Plan – easy read
This is an easy read version of our Strategic Plan.
This was produced by Easy Read Wales and uses Photosymbols.
Medr Strategic Plan – easy readNews: Medr publishes its vision for Wales’s tertiary education and research sector
Medr has published its first Strategic Plan for a more ‘joined-up and inclusive sector’.
“We are confident that our vision is shared across Wales, and that by moving forward together, as one sector united by shared ambition and purpose, we can unlock the potential of a system that is greater than the sum of its parts.”
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