Every year, we pledge to focus on key areas related to what the Full-Time Officers campaigned for during their election. These form our priorities for the academic year and each has it's own set of actions, measures, and timelines.
All of our Priority Objectives are aligned with our overall Strategic Plan areas of activity - Represent, Connect, Support, Include, and Help the Planet.
Priority Objectives 2025-26
Adam Lowe
- Lead Rep Forum
Establish a new Forum for Lead Reps in order to enhance the effectiveness of student representation on campus at a Departmental level, strengthening the student voice across the College academic departments.
- Reverse Shadowing 3.0
Building on 1.0, 2.0… 3.0, to invite other Students' Associations and Unions to spend time with ECSA for a day, to share best practice between institutions in order to improve the student voice at a national level and to create better understanding between colleges and between colleges and universities.
- National campaigns to improve Edinburgh College students' lives
To take an active role in representing Edinburgh College students at a national level and involving EC students in national campaigns, influencing key decision makers and politicians on key areas including:
- Student and College Sector Funding
- Affordable and good quality Housing
- Investment in Student Mental Health Support
Mary ODriscoll
- Putting Environmentalism at the core of the College life
Leading on a range of activities to educate students on how different societal issues intersect and can impact them, whilst also inspiring and empowering them to make achievable changes that will improve their lives while helping the planet, aligning our activity with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and ECSA’s Strategic Theme of Help The Planet.
- Holistic Wellbeing for all
Develop activities that have a holistic wellbeing focus, encouraging students to understand the connections between physical and mental health to improve their overall personal wellbeing and give them tools for life.
- Helping students to help themselves through partnerships
Partner with charities in order to promote resources and activities that can equip students to tackle today’s unique challenges, helping students to tackle addictions, supporting marginalised students, and educating people about the use and opportunities of artificial intelligence platforms and tools.
Sukinder Landa
- Volunteers supporting fellow students tackle loneliness
Providing opportunities for Students to Make Friends and Reduce Loneliness in order to improve their mental health by creating opportunities for students to Support other students through creating and delivering activities on campus.
- Wellbeing events for Mental Health
Create a series of wellbeing events and activities to help support students to develop knowledge and tools to improve and maintain positive mental health - for themselves and their peers.
- Volunteering and paid roles for students
Tackling poverty through creating opportunities fair for students to link with local organisations to provide paid jobs and volunteering opportunities to help improve employability for students
