Vision

The staff and students of Swinburne Sarawak will be entrepreneurial and international in their work. Swinburne Sarawak will become recognised for flexibility in learning and teaching, for focused research, and for industry & community engagement, making it the University of choice in the region.

Mission

1. To be entrepreneurial in our endeavours

Develop an increasingly entrepreneurial culture
Innovative ideas and a creative and dynamic environment to be generated by staff and students
New curricula, and new principles and theories of curricula to be developed
Innovative teaching, research and administration utilized to encourage creativity, flexibility and responsiveness in our operations
Graduates to meet the challenges of competitive business environments and rapidly changing communities with the flexibility and awareness to be successful
Graduates to contribute to the creation of both social and economic wealth

2. To be international in our outlook

Make a major contribution to Swinburne’s status as an international university
Meet our local and regional obligations
Recruit students, with financial as well as intellectual capital, from around the world
Graduates to bring an enhanced intellectual perspective to the workplace
Graduates to be rich in skills
Be members of an international education community
Have an enhanced international perspective on learning and teaching
Build Swinburne into a significant international university

3. To be intersectoral in our approach

For Swinburne Sarawak: enhance pathways opportunities for students
Utilize our dual-sector nature to create advantages for students, staff and industry
Students to take advantage of pathways between foundation, diploma and degree programs
Staff to collaborate across sectors to increase recruitment and education opportunities
Serve industry’s education, training, operational and research needs, ranging from workplace training and short courses, to PhDs and from one-off research projects and industry training, to continuing research collaborations

4. To be flexible in our learning and teaching

For Swinburne Sarawak: ensure equivalence in our learning and teaching quality, and outcomes, with those of Swinburne Melbourne.
Have our flexible approaches to learning and teaching - creating an engaging, stimulating and modern environment in which students learn and develop proactively - recognised
Sustain a co-operative, stable and supportive community for students
Inform learner-centred programs with scholarship and research
Equip students with the knowledge and thinking skills needed to work in an international workplace
Ensure students are capable of maximum mobility

5. To be focused in our research

For Swinburne Sarawak: develop and improve our research profile, both within the existing Swinburne focus and also in response to Sarawakian and Malaysian-specific opportunities
Develop our basic and applied research activities
Define research relevance and real-life applications in industry and community as key unique-features
Extend our discipline research and development into applied pedagogy and scholarship

6. To be engaged with Industry and the community

Staff and students to engage with industry, the professions, and the community, and build productive educational and research partnerships
Professional practice to be encouraged as an important element of building these partnerships
Provide industry-based learning and focused industry research in Swinburne Sarawak’s sphere of activity
Enhance the employability of graduates through these practices and partnerships
Make a significant contribution to the community through social service

Strategic Goals

To enhance professional and vocational learning outcomes
To strengthen Swinburne’s research performance
To internationalise the University community and its activities
To engage actively with industry and the wider community
To be innovative in building organisational sustainability, agility and responsiveness to stakeholder needs