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5.3 Strategic Issues
Strategic issues respond to the fundamental policy questions or critical challenges
affecting our mandates, mission, values, stakeholders, resources, structure, processes,
management, or product or service level and mix. The 37 strategic issues to be
addressed in the remaining three years are listed below.
Poor ethics and organisational culture Poor visibility of UNAM and
participation at events
Heavy reliance on first-stream income
(government subsidy) Poor quality of prospective student
intakes
Insufficient space to cater for the high
enrolment Increasing cost of service delivery
Weak operational processes and Bureaucratic procurement processes
systems
Competitive institutional ranking
Inadequate technologies to aid environment
processes and management system
Weak marketing of research and
Aging and inadequate infrastructure innovation outputs
and facilities
Inadequate funding for research and
Low research output innovation
Insufficient human capital in certain Insufficient work-integrated learning
academic areas
Absence of research framework to
High workload and overloaded monitor research impact
curriculum
Insufficient engagement of
Underperformance of staff members communities in social projects
Low completion rate Lack of representation outside the
country
Inadequate implementation of
governance processes, rules and Insufficient institutional governance
procedures measures in place
Outdated institutional structure Insufficient electronic learning
resources
Lack of business intelligence system
Absence of a leadership
Inadequate safety and security development programme
Competition from other universities Lack of climate change mitigation
and adaptation initiatives
Declining government subsidy
Inadequate ICT governance
Continuously changing demand by
industry and stakeholders Poor service delivery
High number of qualifying student
applications
Poor economic performance
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