Posted on Fri 10 Jul 2026 at 10:30 by
Anthony Foster GRADUATING STUDENTS
Congratulations to everyone who has graduated from Edinburgh Napier University this summer. The sun was shining, the ENSA Knight was out and I hope you and your family and friends had an enjoyable time. Don’t forget to get your ENSA Honorary Life Membership card, extend student life a little longer and support the next cohort of students – details here Life Memberships
NSS
The NSS results are out and on the Students Association question we went UP 1.9% to 76%. We aim to get over 70% every year. Good news! Read the full NSS report from Daniel Wright here and then see what we have achieved this year here in our Impact Report ENSA_ImpactReport_2026.pdf and what we are doing next year in our updated Community Plan StrategicPlan_2026-27_update.pdf which also includes our new strategic objectives at the end.
UNIVERSITY STRATEGY
The University has linked in with the Students’ Association to work with students on the University Strategy consultation. We have already had an initial meeting but a report that went to Court and next steps are explained here Napier's Next Strategy
MERCHISTON ON THE MOVE
The news is out about plans for Merchiston and the move to a site at the Gyle. You may have caught it on the news. Yes it was discussed at Court and at an open meeting on 16th June and yes we haven’t seen any communications to students, just an email to staff. Things are at an early stage and we will keep you informed as best we can. You may have also read stories about merger by stealth but that is not the case. We will keep you informed of developments there too!
ON BOARDING
Contracts, advice, legal action, non payments, building work, new events, committee chase ups, auditors – you name it we have been dealing with it this week. But the best bit has been the induction of our new sabbaticals Emeka and Blessing who I think will do a fantastic job representing students this year, so a big hello to them. We are also saying hello on Monday to our brand new staff member Kiera Lay. Kiera will be our brand new Societies and Community Development Manager, who will look after our Societies, while Craig and Megan (along with Austen) will be dedicated to Sport. You asked for this support and we delivered! Plus Austen has manged to get over £15,000 extra funding for sports in 2026/27. It’s all good news but its keeping everyone busy while you (hopefully) are enjoying the summer break.
Talking of summer breaks this is the final Five Things for a Friday for a little while – we will be back in September. I wish all our staff and students a great summer holiday.
Tony