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Strategic Plan 2020 – 2025

Our strategy rests on a strategic response to several global and

national drivers for change in higher education.

Global trends shaping higher education

The globally evolving university model is driven by constantly changing

drivers of change. The most significant divers are:

In responding to these trends, MUT is

constrained by the dominant residential

public university model supported by

government – a residential university with

a broad-based teaching and research

institution and deep integration with

industry and business. The other major

constraining factor is the resource base

as MUT is not well-endowed to embark

on a major and drastic change in its

business model. Our strategies outlined

in Section 9 are in line with these

global trends.

National policy context

This plan is aligned to the major

national policy documents aimed at

the development of higher education in

South Africa, with particular emphasis

on those that are aimed to explicitly

address the dual imperatives of

redress and development of historically

disadvantaged universities. It recognises

the imperative of a single integrated and

co-ordinated national system of higher

education that supports a diversity of

institutional and organisational forms,

as outlined in the White Paper on

Higher Education (1997).

Strategic drivers

for change

01

Greater access to knowledge characterised by readily available

content, broadening access to higher education and increased

participation in developing countries.

02

Competition for student markets as well as new sources

of funds.

03

Advances in digital technologies characterised by the rise

of online learning.

04

Use of digital technologies in campus-based learning (blended

learning).

05

Greater industry/government/university collaboration with

implications for the scale and depth of industry-based learning and

the importance of research partnerships and commercialisation.

06

Global mobility characterised by competition for international

academic talent and the emergence of elite global university brands.