Strategic Plan and Values

Hello, I'm Joanna Campbell, Principal and Chief Executive of Glasgow Kelvin College.

I'm delighted to introduce Glasgow Kelvin 2030, a strategy For A Future Ready College. Our ambitious new plan that sets out our vision and priorities for the year ahead.

This strategy has been shaped through the voices of our learners, our staff, our partners and our communities. It reflects our shared mission of transforming lives through education and our commitment to inclusion, opportunity and excellence.

I want to share the four pillars that sit at the heart of this plan. Our students, our people, our partners and our place.

Our first ambition is to ensure that Glasgow Kelvin is the College of Choice, offering an outstanding, inclusive experience that prepares learners for learning, life and work. We will continue to reduce barriers to participation, inspire confidence and create future focused learning environments that help every student realise their full potential.

Our staff are the foundation of everything we achieve. We aim to be an employer of choice fostering a culture of wellbeing, continuous development and strong values-led leadership. We will invest in skills, support professional growth and ensure our workforce reflects the communities we serve.

We are proud to work hand-in-hand with employers, schools, universities and community organisations. Our ambition is to be a partner of choice, delivering the skills Glasgow's economy needs for a greener, fairer and more innovative future.  Through collaboration, co-designed curriculum and work-based learning, we will nurture a pipeline of future-ready talent.

As an anchor institution, we are deeply rooted in the communities we serve. Our goal is to support place-based growth, widening participation and enabling opportunity for all. We will continue to empower individuals and neighbourhoods through accessible learning, digital inclusion and community partnership.

 Alongside these four pillars, our strategy is underpinned by two essential enablers, sustainability and digital capability, ensuring we remain future ready, resilient and inclusive.

And at the bedrock of this organisation are our values. You can hear from some of our values ambassadors about how these values were created to reflect everything that is unique about Kelvin.

This is an exciting and pivotal time for Glasgow Kelvin College. Together, our students, our people, our partners and our communities, we will shape a stronger, fairer and more sustainable future for Glasgow.

Thank you for supporting us on this journey.

As Chair of the Board of Management, I am proud to support the launch of Glasgow Kelvin 2030.

This strategic plan represents the Board's commitment to providing clear direction, strong governance and effective oversight as the College prepares for the opportunities and challenges ahead.

Our role is to ensure that the College remains resilient, financially sustainable and firmly focused on delivering long-term benefit for learners, communities and the wider city.

We have carefully considered the changing landscape in which the College operates, from workforce and economic change to climate responsibility and digital advancement. This strategy gives confidence that Glasgow Kelvin College is well positioned to respond with clarity, purpose and ambition.

The board welcomes the collaborative approach taken in developing this plan and is committed to working closely with the principal, the leadership team and staff to support its delivery.

Voice Over:  Our four values here at Kelvin are trust through transparency, inclusive and welcoming, make meaningful opportunities, excellence created together.

Morven Thomson:  The value I particularly like is trust through transparency. As an organisation I think we operate with high levels of trust across so many areas of college life.

Trust for our students, our partners, our staff is central to everything at Kelvin. People rely on us and depend on our openness for their education, their community learning and for working in partnerships. Being transparent is vital in building that trust.

Gary Sharp:  I really connected with the value inclusive and welcoming because throughout the value sessions colleagues really spoke about how the college feels like a place where people truly belong.

In my role I see every day the value of removing barriers and for me this value really captures who we are at our best.

Amrit Bedi:  The value that I particularly like is make meaningful opportunities. Meaningful to me is about making real opportunities that have a genuine difference.

Throughout the values process colleagues came back to the idea of having learners at the heart and communities at the centre of everything we do. To me this is truly inspiring. It's about creating routes which are accessible, relevant and supporting the needs of our students.

Andrea MacAuley:  Value which resonates with me is excellence created together. The reason why I particularly like this value is because it highlights opportunities for shared learning and collaboration across the college and creates an environment where people can create skills to empower themselves.

Gary Sharp:  When we created the new college values, staff were really clear about what mattered. Students trust us with their time every day, often at really important points in their life and staff use their time to educate, support and ensure that others succeed.

We chose time because it reflects that shared responsibility, to use time wisely and ensure that every interaction counts.