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A Welcome From The Vice-Chancellor
I am delighted to welcome you to Bath Spa University.
Bath Spa University is a vibrant and creative environment where staff take great pride in transforming the lives of students through a university experience that is distinctive, challenging and fulfilling.
Bath Spa University shares the strengths and characteristics of many of the UK’s excellent universities: an understanding of the need to provide the best possible student experience and career preparation; a commitment to develop innovative and effective teaching and learning; and a mission to contribute to world class research in areas of strength.
However it also a university of unique contrasts, offering a blend of heritage and modernity, tradition and innovation, that students and staff find particularly attractive. Great care is taken to protect its exceptionally beautiful campuses for future generations, and modern facilities blend sympathetically with buildings of historical significance. A major development of the Newton Park campus, starting in summer 2012 and providing world-class facilities for students, has been designed to be in keeping with the stunning surroundings while meeting stringent standards of environmental performance that reflect the University’s caring ethos.
Since joining the University at the start of 2012 I have been impressed by the culture of care that permeates Bath Spa’s activities. This is a friendly community of students and staff that values creativity, culture and enterprise. Great emphasis is placed on teaching quality, and the University makes a valuable contribution to the knowledge economy within its areas of expertise. The University also plays a significant role in the cultural, creative and social life of Bath and the South-West region.
Partnerships with employers, businesses and professional bodies are key to the University’s success, and many staff are engaged in professional practice that informs their teaching and research. We aim to develop partnerships with universities across the globe to produce graduates who are ambitious global citizens, ready to make a difference.
Professor Christina Slade, Vice-Chancellor.
Our Mission...
Our mission is to be an outstanding and distinctive university that provides degree courses of the highest quality, informed by a culture of scholarship, expertise and teaching excellence.
