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SWGS Scholarship spots student talent
Student, Kobus Stander, has won a £2,000 South West Growers Show (SWGS) Sponsored Scholarship.Part of the David Colegrave Foundation (DCF) Scholarship Season, this award supports commercial and production horticulture by...
Insurance Broker to Animal Scientist
Polly Elliot-Pyle, 30, worked as an insurance broker for many years after graduating from Heriot Watt University in 2012. Her childhood dream of working with animals never left her, having...
From Banker to Garden Designer
Margaret Wright worked for RBS for more than 30 years, latterly as a project manager after joining the bank straight from school age 17. In 2016 she was given the...
SRUC student curler sweeps closer to Olympic ambition
A Rural Business Management student from Scotland’s Rural College has Olympic ambitions after being part of a team which won Great Britain’s first medal at the World University Games. Duncan...
Blooming Great Bake Sale
SRUC 2nd Year Garden Design students channelled their creativity into baking up a splendid array of sweet and savoury treats; holding a bake sale in the SRUC arcade this week. ...
Grow Careers Event Blossoms at The Botanical Gardens
Wednesday 20th February saw Edinburgh’s Botanical Gardens host a series of speeches from world renowned horticulturalists as part of the ever popular ‘Grow Careers’ day. The event, aimed at raising...
College Street Party
This year marks 20 years of Gardening Scotland at the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh and to mark the occasion, this year will see the introduction of a brand new...
Jarlath Flynn’s Amazing ‘Gretna HedgeHog’ Photo
SRUC’s very own Jarlath Flynn took the internet by storm today with his incredible photo of a Starling Murmuration. His photo, which features around 60,000 starlings took the shape of...
Book Week Scotland – Staff Recommmendations
Applied Animal Science lecturer Carol Thompson tells us about one of her favourtite books for Book Week Scotland. (One of) My favourite books is ‘Some We Love, Some We Hate,...
Book Week Scotland
For Book Week Scotland we asked staff and students at Scotland’s Rural College to tell us about a book that they love. We start the week with a brilliant recommendation...