Financial Statements 2017/18
Welcome from the Vice-Chancellor
Middlesex transforms lives. We see potential in every one of our students, many of whom are the first in their families to make it to university. They go on to achieve amazing things in business and the professions, which is why our Made in Middlesex campaign features story after story about our alumni and their remarkable achievements.
Take fashion designer Cher Chan. Her BA in Fashion Design set her up for success in the fashion industry, including winning a commission to design the silk scarf given to world leaders at a recent G20 summit in China. Or take BA Accounting and Finance graduate Nick Chandler, who is now a partner at KPMG. Like thousands of other graduates, they credit their success to how they were taught by experts, encouraged to develop resilience and creativity, and graduated ‘work-ready’.
Our hands-on approach to education is a Middlesex signature strength. When the Head of Open Innovation at Siemens came to see our project-based learning in practice he left inspired. He wrote on LinkedIn, “I was sceptical about how this could work in practice but I would opt for a candidate who could talk me through how they built a laser etching machine from scratch over a percentage degree mark any day”.
The House of Commons Education Select Committee Chair, The Right Honourable Robert Halfon MP, had a similar experience when he came to see us last June. When he later asked us to the Palace of Westminster to give evidence to his Committee on what the fourth industrial revolution means for education, we sent a robot as one of our team of experts.
The fourth industrial revolution will change lives but our job is to enable our graduates to shape change and not just be shaped by it. This is about their professional and technical skills, but it is also about their diversity, which brings rich and different perspectives, creative ideas and new ways of solving complex problems.
Employers are increasingly realising that our students’ diversity is a resource to invest in, not just to diversify their workforces but also to realise the potential of diverse teams to raise performance. That’s why the Ministry of Justice has partnered with Middlesex to create new pathways into careers in the civil service.
Our Strategy has as its first aim to provide an inspiring choice of pathways to a Middlesex degree. We are embracing degree apprenticeships to help meet that aim. Our new Centre for Apprenticeships and Skills is already recognised as an exemplar in the sector and featured in a key Universities UK report on how employers, universities and colleges need to work together to meet advanced skills needs.
I am proud that Middlesex is ranked among the top 500 universities in the world, recognising the quality of our teaching and research, and especially proud to be among the world’s top 150 universities under 50 years old. Middlesex is young, innovative and truly international, with over 37,000 students studying across four campuses in London, Dubai, Mauritius and Malta, as well as with partner institutions across the globe. In London, more than 19,000 students from 140 countries study together in a vibrant learning community on a green campus in our local Borough of Barnet, where our work brings over £289m into the local economy each year and supports over 4,000 jobs.
We put our students first from the moment they apply to long after they graduate, working in partnership with the award- winning MDX Students’ Union. Students are at the centre of everything we do and our staff embrace this commitment with passion.
Pepper, one of our resident robots delivering evidence at the House of Commons.
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The environment we work in is a tough one, with fierce competition and financial pressures. We have a new regulator, the Office for Students, and the sector will be under more intense scrutiny. Achieving Silver in the national Teaching
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