In June 2020, King’s Senior Management Team and Academic Board approved a position paper to bring together specific areas of educational activity which currently sit outside of a Faculty/Directorate structure. This is provisionally called King’s Education. The areas in scope are King’s Foundations, Online, Professional & Executive Education, Modern Language Centre and Summer Programmes. There are over 8,000 students, taught either fully or partially by these areas, and over 200fte staff working across them. The core driver in bringing these areas together is to support the delivery of Vision 2029, specifically the Education and International strategies, through widening our definition, understanding and enabling of what education means, and can mean, at King’s. King’s Education will provide a common home to these areas, addressing key current challenges around structural barriers to growth. It will also provide a common platform for realising potential synergies and ensuring consistency in educational governance. This will strengthen the visibility and potential impact of the areas in question.

The strategic purpose of King’s Education is to widen access to education at King's and to deliver King’s ambitions to expand learning opportunities, reaching a broader audience beyond the current PG/UG focus and primarily on-campus experience. This is an ambition highlighted in Vision 2029 that is embedded in priority initiatives in our Education Strategy. King’s Education will be primarily aligned to the Education Strategy with a clear and key secondary alignment to Internationalisation Strategy 2029 through its contribution to expanding global reach. It will contribute to the Service and London Agendas, but it is not intended that the Institute have a research role. Our vision is to work with Faculties to deliver King’s ambitions in expanding learning opportunities across the education spectrum. We aim to be a sector leader through fusing our collective expertise in design and pedagogy in our product development and educational delivery. By expanding what education means at King’s, King’s Education will offer a joined-up approach to facilitating a broader King’s education experience to individual learners, public and private sector groups, and partners, both in the UK and internationally. We will achieve this through a collaborative approach with and across faculties, and by brokering or leading a portfolio of innovative courses, products and initiatives.