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Wonky Competition!

Posted on October 11, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

Take part in SRUC’s 2018-19 student competition! Showcase your creativity, entrepreneurial flair and innovation. Impress the expert judging panel with your wonky produce ideas. Total prizes £800 cash plus the...

Categories: Aberdeen events, Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Ayr, Ayr events, Barony, Barony events, Business, Campus, Edinburgh, Edinburgh events, Elmwood, Elmwood events, Oatridge, Oatridge events, Organic Farming, and SRUC Subjects Tags: #student, Competition, and students

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
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SRUCSA Sports Day at Oatridge

Posted on July 11, 2018 by Anouska Curzon

On 23th May 2018, SRUCSA organised it’s first ever Sports Day. The event was held at SRUC Oatridge Campus during lunchtime and was supported by the Sports and Activities Officer...

Categories: Oatridge, Oatridge events, Student Life, Student opportunities, and Student Successes Tags: active. shady, mental health, Mental Health Awareness, Oatridge, sport, Sports Day, SRUC, and SRUCSA

SRUC Oatridge’s Pathway users win pallet garden prize

Posted on June 29, 2018 by sruc

Pathways service users from Linlithgow won a silver gilt for their pallet Garden at Gardening Scotland. The pallet garden was on display all Saturday and Saturday at the event at...

Categories: Gardening Scotland, Horticulture, and Oatridge
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Sarah Scott – Horse Care

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Rich Gordon

Sarah Scott, 25 had a previous  career as a housekeeper/waitress before changing her path to study equine with us at Oatridge. Sarah aspires to get a job in the equine industry, and...

Categories: Animal & Biological, Change your path, Equine and Horse Care, HN Level, Oatridge, Professional Certification, Student opportunities, and Student Successes Tags: Change your path, Equine, mature student, Return to study, and SRUC Oatridge
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Gardening Scotland Pop-Up gardens

Posted on June 5, 2018 by Rich Gordon

Along with our show garden A Wee Natural Gallery, students from all of our horticulture-teaching campuses (Edinburgh, Elmwood and Oatridge) produced stunning pop-up gardens to display at Gardening Scotland. All...

Categories: Ayr, Edinburgh, Elmwood, Garden Design, Gardening Scotland, Horticulture, Oatridge, Student Life, and Student Successes Tags: Garden Design, Gardening Scotland, Horticulture, Pop-up garden, SRUC, SRUC Edinburgh, SRUC Elmwood, and SRUC Oatridge

What is Kokedama?

Posted on June 5, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

SRUC students and staff had a great time at Gardening Scotland recently helping members of the public make beautiful Kokedama – Japanese moss balls. Small plants have their root balls wrapped...

Categories: Advice, Gardening Scotland, Horticulture, Oatridge, Student Life, Student opportunities, and Student Visits Tags: #srucgarden18, #SRUCHorticulture, Garden Design, Horticulture, and kokedama

Prizes Galore for Oatridge Students at Gardening Scotland

Posted on June 1, 2018 by sruc

SRUC Oatridge horticulture students have been awarded several prizes at the 2018 edition of Gardening Scotland. The show is now underway and will remain open during the weekend as well....

Categories: Campus, Gardening Scotland, Horticulture, and Oatridge Tags: #SRUCHorticulture, #SRUCOatridge, Gardening Scotland, and Horticulture

#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