Mission

What is our Mission?

The Mission of the Arts University College at Bournemouth is to provide a high quality professional environment for its staff and students, to allow them to study, research and practise arts, design, media and performance to the highest standards, so that they can contribute to the cultural and economic development of society.

 

Who are we?

The Arts University College at Bournemouth, established in 1884 as a specialist institute, is now a leading university sector institution offering high quality specialist education in art, design, media and performance across the creative industries. We remain passionate about our subjects and continue to encourage curiosity, risk-taking and adventure in exploring and pushing subject knowledge and its boundaries. The University College provides staff and students with a well resourced environment in which to work to the highest professional standards.

 

What are our aspirations as a University College?

The work of the University College both contributes to and enhances cultural and economic life at regional, national and international levels. As it develops, the University College will continue to build on its research activities and industry expertise to generate new knowledge and to support its application and dissemination within creative practice, to remain at the forefront of work in our disciplines.

 

What are our core values?

The University College values:

  • being able to provide a supportive environment in which every student is encouraged to fulfil their own potential, from Junior Art School through to postgraduate study
  • collaborative working with industry and other education providers
  • collective working within a creative community
  • diversity and individuality
  • entrepreneurship and engagement with the creative industries
  • equal learning opportunities for all
  • excellence in research, scholarship, teaching and learning
  • freedom of thought and its appropriate expression
  • high standards of work expressed in a professional context
  • practitioners who are able to be critically reflective and are able to apply such reflection to their work and the work of others
  • the provision of an education that enables learning to continue after study with us
  • staff and the contribution they make collectively to the local, regional, national and international cultural and social economies.