1. Watt Club AGM Nuala Boyle, Assistant Principal, Development 22nd February 2018

2. Our rankings
One of the top 400 universities worldwide (The Times Higher Education World University Rankings
In the top 500 universities in the world (Academic Ranking of World Universities)

3. HIGHLIGHTS
DUBAI
EDINBURGH
MALAYSIA
ORKNEY
BORDERS

4. News Heriot-Watt names Europe’s first Centre for Actuarial Excellence
Major boost to Graduate Apprenticeships
Heriot-Watt launches Year of the Sea
BP awards Heriot-Watt University £1.25million for energy economics research
Significant boost for doctoral training
Santander and Heriot-Watt sign up for another three years of success

5. Robotics First UK National Robotarium
Annual Vice Chancellor Distinguished lecture - Professor David Lane
Amazon Alexa Prize - £3.5m
HWU only UK university to reach the final three – runner up
2018 Amazon Prize – Heriot-Watt the only UK university in this new round

6. Capital Developments
Construction begins on the new £19m Discovery & Innovation Centre on Riccarton campus
Panmure House - final home of Adam Smith

7. Watt Club update

8. Brand Monthly communications
The Watt, our annual alumni magazine (December 2017)
Graduations

9. Over 5,000 have signed up

10. Telethon
In 2017, our annual telethon raised £173,444. Every penny raised will transform lives by supporting students all backgrounds to access education, explore ideas through project grants and pursue their sporting and musical dreams while studying.

11. Events
London Houston
China Malaysia
Dubai New York

12. Opt-in
Legislation
Implications
Progress to date

13. Team update Gavin Rennie, Alumni Engagement Officer
We have welcomed EBS alumni engagement officer Adam Gillies into the team.
Leigh Peddie has joined us as administrator (Anna McCallum’s maternity cover) until January 2019, and Kerryn Kirkpatrick is maternity cover for Shona Price in the role of Alumni Engagement Manager until October 2018.
Leigh Peddie,
Alumni Administrator
(maternity cover)
Kerryn Kirkpatrick,
Alumni Engagement Manager
(maternity cover)
Adam Gillies,
Alumni Engagement Officer, EBS

14. Future work