Strategic Plan - Your Feedback

We believe

That the wellbeing of our students and staff is integral to all our activity. 
In supporting students to be the best artists, performers, or entrepreneurs they possibly can be. 
That higher education is about students realising their own identity, and graduate as individuals ready to make healthy, positive choices about their next steps.  
In vocations, not just ‘jobs’. 
In supporting students who will create what the music, theatre or performing arts industries will become, not preparing them for the ones that exist. 
In seeing students as whole people, not ‘just’ as students or artists. 
That everyone has the right to work and study in an environment which doesn’t discriminate through cultural, economic or social differences. 
Difference is to be acknowledged and celebrated and students and staff should feel able to be their true and authentic selves in what they learn, study and teach.  
In social purpose and investing in our community. 
That the whole of Leeds is our campus – we support and respect our region and will work to be an integral part of its growth and success. 
We produce successful graduates, world class in their respective fields.

We aim to:

Create an inclusive working and learning environment, where everybody’s background and experience is respected and championed. 
Give proactive support to those who experience disadvantage or discrimination. 
Recognise diversity as a core strength of the conservatoire – in our curriculum, recruitment and retention, our approach to teaching and learning, and in our buildings and services.  
Be a leading voice in equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) for other conservatoires, the industry and policy makers.  
Ensure students and staff feel safe and comfortable, physically, artistically,  financially and emotionally.

We aim to:

Develop core curricula which are high quality, exciting, inventive and artistically challenging, and which support students in their personal and professional growth while they’re with us and beyond. 
Offer a range of flexible, adaptable and accessible activities which give students opportunities to collaborate and tailor their learning experience. 
Deliver curricula in physical and digital environments which are fit for purpose and are developed to complement teaching, learning and accessibility needs. 
Develop our staff as part of a community which promotes academic and artistic enquiry, scholarship and practice.

We aim to:

Become financially sustainable for the long-term, providing value for money for students and fair and equitable arrangements for staff.  
Develop an institutional culture of mutual reward and value where people, their work and their contribution to the conservatoire community are valued. 
Embed environmental sustainability across the conservatoire, in how we develop our curriculum and our practices as artists, makers and educators.  
Contribute to sustainability of the Arts in the region, liaising with government, regional stakeholders and policy makers to have the Leeds voice heard in future planning. (Leading towards our 60th anniversary in 2025.) 
Develop partnerships and pursue funding that will allow us to achieve our sustainability aims over the long-term.

Please give us your feedback on the above Strategic Plan using the form below. Your submissions will remain anonymous.