Shaping Brighton's future
Higher education in the UK is facing profound challenges. Severe financial pressures, changing student expectations and growing demand for skills, innovation and research mean that incremental change is no longer going to deliver.
Rather than waiting for change to happen, the university is thinking boldly about its future and how it can create a stronger, financially sustainable institution that is radically relevant and better connected to students, employers, communities and partners.
Professor Donna Whitehead, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Brighton, said: "Universities across the UK are facing significant challenges. Our response is not to stand still or wait for change to happen to us.
"We are choosing to shape our own future, building a university that is stronger, more sustainable and better connected to the needs of future students, employers, communities and partners.
"This is about creating the foundations for the next generation of Brighton and ensuring we continue to invest confidently in our students, our staff and our impact."
Transforming our campuses
Brighton’s ambition is to create campuses that match its vision for the future – inclusive, connected and sustainable places that bring people together, support collaboration and provide an outstanding environment in which to learn, teach, research and work.
Through its Campuses of the Future work, the university is exploring how its estate can better support that ambition and the changing needs of students, staff and partners.
Today, the university operates across three campuses: City, Moulsecoomb and Falmer. Each has its own strengths and identity, but operating across three locations also means the university’s community, facilities and investment are dispersed across the city. A preferred option is now being explored that could see activity currently delivered across three campuses brought together at City and Moulsecoomb from 2030.
This has the potential to create a more connected, inclusive, vibrant and sustainable experience, while enabling investment to be focused where it can make the greatest difference. It would create opportunities to develop high-quality, accessible spaces designed around the needs of the whole university community, with modern technology and outstanding facilities supporting learning, teaching, research, collaboration and innovation.