Goals and values

Purposes of Worldwide University

The University is a religious institution and is organized exclusively for religious, charitable and educational purposes. Its specific purpose is as follows:

1. Conduct studies, teaching, training, and research within a Christian framework including:
1. The integration of Christian worldview and ministry with humanities, arts and sciences
2. The study of theology, religion and spirituality in varying cultural contexts
2. Provide affordable high quality graduate and post-graduate study opportunities to students who may not have sufficient means
3. Award qualifications in those fields.
4. Conduct relevant educational support programs for the above.

Core items of Business Plan

Immediate objectives

1. Implement policy-based software as an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, which includes a Student Information System (SIS) and Learning Management System (LMS).
2. Run core academic programs with small pilot groups of students.

Longer term objectives

1. Implement all programs as financially sustainable business units.
2. Recruit more staff to support growth.
3. Expand into China.

Values

"Promote international development by equipping professional leaders to compete on the global stage."

1. Accreditable
WU intends to become accredited in the USA in its own right.

2. Objectives-based
All WU units are defined as objectives, which are course requirements that are expressed as something the student must be able to do. Students may submit work for assessment based on the same objectives, and the same standard of performance is required.

3. Open to the general public
WU open its programs to the general public.

4. Asia
WU is a local Asian access point to an international education. WU deliberately offers its programs to prospective students in the Asian region, which has a significant proportion of the world's population and most of its fastest growing economies.

5. Optimum automation
In the last few years, systems for giving online learning support have evolved very rapidly, dramatically reducing the costs to students.

6. English
Worldwide University realizes that many prospective students across Asia need to improve their English language proficiency for admission to most US university courses. Consequently WU aims to implement a new approach to teaching English online.

7. Context driven
We understand that our students can come from many different places, with different cultures and different employer organizations. As a result, WU guides students to explore their own environment and apply what they learn in their particular context. Besides being effective for the student, it also enables them to understand how other students work in very different contexts.

8. Direct benefit
WU programs are designed to give direct benefit to the student and his/her current employment. In some cases, this might give employers an incentive to pay tuition costs for students.