McKelvey to step down as SAC principal

Professor Bill McKelvey, chief executive and principal of SAC, will step down at the end of January next year. By then he will have been in his post for ten years.

The announcement by SAC comes in the same week as he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a significant award and recognition by his academic and scientific peers.

A vet, with experience in both private practice and research, McKelvey joined SAC in 1988 before being appointed CEO and principal in 2002. Since then he has led a major reorganisation of SAC's operations.

During his time as principal, SAC has become a fully fledged Higher Education Institution offering a wide range of predominately degree courses to both school leavers and returners to education. One of his main achievements has been the relocation of teaching from Auchincruive to the new Riverside Campus in Ayr, shared with the University of West of Scotland and due to open later this year.