News from the SEI
SEI Training Fund:
Adviser for the Periodic External Review
(affectionately known as the PER) which
is due to take place during the
academic year 2019-2020.
This month we thank St Oswald’s
Kings Park (Diocese of Glasgow and
Galloway) for its generous donation;
the Revd Sally Gorton (Diocese of
Glasgow and Galloway) for
continuing to give her deputising
fees to the Fund; likewise, the Revd
Canon Robin Paisley (Diocese of
Glasgow and Galloway) for donating
various consultancy fees.
Basically, the evaluatory process has two
parts: a visit of two to three days by a
Ministry Division appointed team looking
at formation & a single-day visit by a
Durham-led team which is essentially
an academic quality assurance review.
It is likely that the residential part of the
process will take place in January 2020.
This money supports our fulltime
(incumbent status) students who opt
study for an MDiv degree at New
College alongside their formational
studies in the SEI.
The review team will meet a wide
array of stakeholders including members
of Institute Council, Bishops, SEI staff,
students, placement supervisors, Mixed
Mode training supervisors and Diocesan
Advisors.
Two such ordinands, Harriet Oxley
and Jennifer Holden, will complete
their studies this summer and be
ordained to curacies in the Dioceses
of Glasgow and Galloway and
Aberdeen and Orkney respectively.
By giving to the Fund, donors are
thus not only supporting individual
ordinands but helping to build the
future leadership of the Scottish
Episcopal Church.
This year’s winner of the Alastair
Haggart Bursary Award is the Revd
David Wostenholm, Rector of St Matthew’s
Possilpark, Diocese of Glasgow and
Galloway, and Convenor of the Diocesan
Prayer and Spirituality Group.
Fr David’s plan is use the award to
allow him ‘to wander with intent ’ in
France and Spain, carrying in his heart
some significant theological questions
not just for his own recreation but for
the greater good of the people of God as
they seek to find blessedness in modern
society.
The Management Committee:
On 21 January the Management
Committee – SEI’s Board of Studies
– was joined by David Hanson,
Quality Assurance Adviser at
Ministry Division (left) and his
colleague, Keith Beech-Gruneberg,
Initial Ministerial Education Pathways
The current issue and back numbers of
the SEI Newsletter can be found at
https://www.scotland.anglican.org/who-
we-are/vocation-and-ministry/sei/sei-
newsletter/
7