General Council meeting - Saturday 29 November 2025

GENERAL COUNCIL

Members of the General Council are called to a statutory half-yearly meeting on

SATURDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2025 at 10.30am

in PARLIAMENT HALL, SOUTH STREET, ST ANDREWS

The Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dame Sally Mapstone FRSE, will preside.

Opening Prayer: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan, University Chaplain

  1. Minute of the last ordinary half-yearly meeting of the General Council held on Saturday 28 June 2025

  2. Chancellor election – Alastair Merrill, Registrar and Clerk to General Council

  3. Business Committee update and Standing Orders – Revd Matthew Lawson, Acting Convener of the General Council Business Committee

  4. University Address – Professor Dame Sally Mapstone FRSE, Principal and Vice-Chancellor

  5. Draft Ordinances – Alastair Merrill, Registrar and Clerk to General Council

  6. Any Other Competent Business: Appointment of Registrar and Clerk

Benediction: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan, University Chaplain

Alastair Merrill
Registrar and Clerk to the General Council

The next statutory meeting of the General Council will be held on Saturday 27 June 2026 at 10.30am in Parliament Hall, St Andrews.

PRESIDENT

Vacant

GENERAL COUNCIL ASSESSORS TO THE UNIVERSITY COURT

Jonathan Hewitt (until 31 July 2027)
Iain Anderson     (until 31 July 2028)

BUSINESS COMMITTEE

Convener Revd Matthew Lawson

Ex-Officio Members

The Principal

The Chancellor’s Assessor (Alison Johns until 2029)

The General Council Assessors to the University Court – see above

Acting Convenor, Revd Matthew Lawson

Registrar and Clerk to the General Council

Alastair Merrill, Vice-Principal (Governance)

General Council and University webpages

Listed below are a number of General Council and University webpages that may be of interest to General Council members.

OPENING PRAYER

Oremus
Omnipotens et aeterne Deus:
Actiones nostras omnes aspirando praeveni
Et adiuvando prosequere;
Ut cuncta nostra operatio,
Et praesertim hoc quod nunc adgredimur opus,
A te incipiat
Et per te coeptum finiatur;
Quatenus sanctum nomen tuum glorificemus,
Et misericordia tua vitam aeternam consequamur
Per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. 
AMEN

Let us pray
Almighty and eternal God:
Prepare all our doings by your spirit
And further them by your help; 
That all our work,
And especially this task which we now undertake,
May be begun from you
And through you reach its completion;
That we may glorify your holy name,
And by your mercy obtain eternal life
Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
AMEN

 

CLOSING PRAYER

Gratia domini nostri Jesu Christi
Et caritas Dei
Et communicatio Spiritus Sancti
Sit cum omnibus nobis
In saecula saeculorum. 
AMEN

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
And the love of God
And the communion of the Holy Spirit
Be with us all
For ever and ever.
AMEN