Aberdeen

Opening doors to the agriculture industry, and progressing within the field

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

Joanna Foubister is a Trainee Agricultural Consultant at the SAC Consulting Office in Stonehaven. “I applied to study SRUC’s MSc Agricultural Professional Practice after deciding I wanted to pursue a career...

Categories: Aberdeen, Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Postgraduate, and Student Successes Tags: #Agriculture, agricultural, consultancy, consulting, MSc, Postgrad, postgraduate, practice, professional, sac, and SRUCAberdeen

Difficult Choices for Book Week Scotland

Posted on November 21, 2018 by Anouska Curzon

Julie Robinson from the SRUC Aberdeen campus found choosing just one book for Book Week Scotland quite a challenge, so instead she chose three. Being asked to choose my favourite...

Categories: Aberdeen, Advice, and Campus Tags: Aberdeen, book week scotland, books, scotland, SRUC, and SRUC Aberdeen

Countryside Management students attend Europarc 2018

Posted on November 1, 2018 by Bridgit Edmonstone

Lecturer Nicky Penford, accompanied by eleven first year Countryside Management students visited Glen Tanar Estate recently as part of the Europarc Federation Conference 2018. The Europarc Federation is an independent, non-governmental organisation, which aims...

Categories: Aberdeen, Campus, Countryside Management, Environment and Countryside, Student Life, and Student Visits
Rory Aberdeen

Profile of an Aberdeen Librarian

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Anouska Curzon

In the second part of our profiles for Libraries Week we speak with SRUC Aberdeen librarian Rory MacLeod. Introduce yourself Hello! I’m Rory MacLeod and I’ve been campus librarian for...

Categories: Aberdeen, Advice, and Campus Tags: Aberdeen, information, librarian, library, research, SRUC, and SRUCAberdeen

Welcome to new students 2018

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

Our Principal, Wayne Powell, records a welcome video to all our students each year. You can watch this online here: Link to the video on Vimeo    

Categories: Aberdeen, Activity Tourism, Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Animal & Biological, Animal Care, Animal Science, Ayr, Barony, Biological Sciences, Business, Campus, City & Guilds, Countryside Management, Degree, Distance Learning, Edinburgh, Elmwood, Environment, Environment and Countryside, Equine and Horse Care, Forestry and Arboriculture, Garden Design, Gardening Scotland, Golf, Green & Renewable Technology, Greenkeeping and Sports Turf, HN Level, Horticulture, Hospitality, Introductory, Land-based Engineering, Land-Based Skills, Landscape, Modern Apprenticeships, Oatridge, Organic Farming, Postgraduate, Poultry, Professional Certification, Renewables, Rural & Estate Skills, Short Courses, Sports, SRUC Subjects, Study level, Sustainability, and Veterinary Nursing
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Change Your Path

Posted on August 12, 2018 by Rich Gordon

You know how the saying goes “Find a job you love and you will never work another day in your life”. Confucius, the wise Chinese philosopher makes that sound easy...

Categories: Aberdeen, Ayr, Barony, Change your path, Edinburgh, Elmwood, and Oatridge Tags: Change your path, mature student, return to learning, SRUC, and SRUC mature student
Ellie Sandison, Whalsay School 1st prize

STEM Competition 2018

Posted on June 26, 2018 by Rich Gordon

Each year, with the help of STEM,  we run a competition with schools across Scotland for students to design an advert for a job role in the sciences. The remit...

Categories: Aberdeen, Ayr, and Biological Sciences Tags: Job advert, science, Scottish Schools, SRUC, STEM, and STEM Competition 2018

#SRUCcess for the SRUC Marketing Team

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) has been shortlisted for two prestigious national higher education marketing awards. SRUC has been named as a finalist in two categories in the Higher Education Information...

Categories: Aberdeen, Ayr, Barony, Campus, Edinburgh, Elmwood, Events, and Oatridge

Why are you doing this?

Posted on May 25, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

We asked our current students what motivated them to study their course…. here are the full results: There are some variations by subject area – those studying subjects related to animals are...

Categories: Aberdeen, Advice, Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Animal & Biological, Animal Care, Animal Science, Ayr, Barony, Biological Sciences, Business, Countryside Management, Edinburgh, Elmwood, Environment, Environment and Countryside, Equine and Horse Care, Forestry and Arboriculture, Garden Design, Golf, Green & Renewable Technology, Greenkeeping and Sports Turf, Horticulture, Hospitality, Land-based Engineering, Land-Based Skills, Landscape, Oatridge, Poultry, Renewables, Rural & Estate Skills, Sports, SRUC Subjects, Student Life, Student Successes, Sustainability, and Veterinary Nursing

Mental Health Awareness Week: Combatting stress

Posted on May 16, 2018 by Rich Gordon

We’ve put together a video featuring tips on how to combat stress, in support of Mental Health Awareness Week.

Categories: Aberdeen, Advice, Ayr, Barony, Edinburgh, Elmwood, Oatridge, Safety, Student Life, and Student opportunities Tags: mental health, Mental Health Awareness, SRUC, and SRUCSA