and works with the students’ union to create an inclusive culture for LGBTQ+ students. However, the Presbyterian Church in Ireland requires that each professor of the college must subscribe to the Westminster Confession of Faith, which states with regard to marriage that those “such as profess the true reformed religion should not marry with infidels, papists, or other idolaters”. It was therefore expected that the proposed relationship would be met by opposition, as proved to be the case with one anonymous blog. The General Assembly did not meet in 2020 to discuss the proposed partnership (neither meeting in person due to COVID-19 nor online for seemingly undisclosed reasons) but the members of the Assembly authorised a Standing Commission to conduct business on its behalf. In October 2021, the college began advertising a new undergraduate degree on its website, validated by St Mary's University, Twickenham, which is committed to the mission of the Catholic Church in higher education. Whereas admission of prospective undergraduate students at Union Theological College was previously governed independently by Queen’s University Belfast, applications for the new undergraduate programme are not possible either via UCAS or St Mary's University but must instead be sent by email directly to administrative staff at Union Theological College. The programme of training for ministry in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland is not delivered at Union College alone but also at an unspecified number of “recognised colleges” elsewhere. Postgraduate degrees are now awarded through BibleMesh by the Presbyterian Theological Faculty Ireland. The student retention rate for postgraduate degrees was reported as having been identical to the 100% retention rate for students whose degrees would be conferred by Queen’s University Belfast for residential courses but lower for online courses: 90% on average and as low as 80% for one course to date (where one person out of a class of five dropped out). While residential courses can be paid for in sterling, all online postgraduate courses through BibleMesh at Union Theological College require payment in United States dollars upon application. Information available for most such courses advertises access (such as through videos) to the teaching by various scholars around the world who are not members of faculty at the college but who also have lectures freely available on YouTube (e.g. Sinclair Ferguson, Fred Sanders, Tremper Longman III, John N. Oswalt, Craig Blomberg, Bruce Longenecker and Mark L. Strauss). In February 2022, it was announced