New College model

Delivery

With planning, investment, and a focus on new ideas and opportunities, this is how we are turning strategy into action.

World-leading research

  • Implementing a strategic plan to create a world-leading research environment and drive research outputs and impact in readiness for REF 2029.
  • Building on and investing in existing clusters of research excellence whilst identifying and developing new areas that play to our institutional strengths.
  • Reviewing and enhancing postgraduate research opportunities and support.
  • Identifying and pursuing new strategic partnerships and funding opportunities.

Education excellence

  • Strengthening our portfolio of programmes at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
  • Enhancing our sector-leading student experience across our three Departments.
  • Building and marketing a portfolio of executive education, digital, and lifelong learning programmes which harness our transformative education and research excellence and leverage our place in St Andrews. 
  • Creating new opportunities for leading practitioners to contribute to our educational programmes.

Purposeful partnerships

  • Comprehensively reviewing our partnership approach, including relationship management, depth and breadth of existing relationships, opportunity identification, and resources.
  • Developing a strategic plan to enhance and expand existing partnerships across the School to enable Education excellence and World-leading research.
  • Identifying new opportunities with potential public, private, and third-sector organisations and world-leading business schools to enable Education excellence and World-leading research.

Empowered people

  • Highlighting key leadership roles for driving the strategy, including a new governance framework, promotional opportunities, and strategic appointments.
  • Enhancing our operations by developing a new workload allocation model, redesigning professional services, creating a new academic governance framework, and refreshing policies, processes, and systems.
  • Engaging colleagues in the School's development, consulting, collecting, evaluating, and using feedback at pivotal moments to adjust our direction of travel.
  • Working across the University to deliver on the People Strategy 2023–2027.