University excels in ELIR
St Andrews has received an unprecedented eight significant commendations following the Quality Assurance Agency (Scotland) Enhancement-led Institutional Review 2020 (ELIR). In an early draft outcome report, the outstanding results reflect positively on everything we do around learning and teaching in the University.
The commendations are around:
- Our partnership working with students and our responsiveness to the student voice
- The active support we have for access, diversity and inclusion
- The excellent student learning experience at St Andrews
- The significant steps we have taken to address student wellbeing and mental health
- Our strong performance in graduate employment and development of graduate attributes
- Our systematic approach to quality enhancement
- Our strategic approach to academic leadership development
- The pivotal role of the Proctor’s office in providing leadership around learning and teaching, and the student experience.
We also have four recommendations which are on how we work procedurally with our external examiners and the institutional monitoring of training and development processes. We will be able to respond positively on these recommendations with the introduction of some simple systems and procedures.
The Vice-Principal Education (Proctor), Professor Clare Peddie, would like to thank everyone who played their part in contributing to the ELIR review process – it is hugely appreciated and it is only through the collective efforts of the entire academic, professional and student community that the University has excelled in this process.
The published report will be available to read in full on the QAA website in February.