CLOSING REMARKS As our reputation grows, our accolades and recognition typify our flexible and growth-oriented mindset. Therefore, it is a matter of immense delight that, for the first time, we were shortlisted for Outstanding Entrepreneurial University of the Year 2020 in the Times Higher Education Awards and The Learning Technologies 2020 Award on best use of blended technologies through the pandemic. Our other major awards included the HEIST Marketing Team of the Year 2020. We have always said that the University of East London is the university which prepares its students for the jobs of the future. We have been doing this proudly for over 120 years, starting in 1898 during the second industrial revolution and continuing to this day, in the midst of the fourth and fifth. That evolving digital future now appears to be arriving faster and in more varied forms than anyone could have imagined even a year ago. But the work we have done is evidence that we are, and should remain, in the vanguard of a new post-Covid world. In the year ahead we will continue to innovate; remain efficiently agile; invest wisely and proactively; and ensure the University plays a lead role in Newham, London and the UK’s greener, more resilient and inclusive economic post-pandemic recovery. I hope you will join me in acknowledging and praising the immense work of all those that are part of our university. The results published here give us the confidence and positive outlook that we are moving in the right direction through our shared governance and stewardship from the Board of Governors, the University Executive Board and our Schools and Services. With best wishes,
Professor Amanda J Broderick BA (Hons) PhD DipM DipMRS PGCTL FRSA MBGS FCIM FHEA Vice-Chancellor and President