Agricultural & Landbased

Schools STEM Competition

Posted on April 12, 2017 by Hannah D'Mellow

Win £200 in our Schools STEM Competition – Grow your Future with Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and STEM. Deadline 17th May 2017! Open to all Secondary School pupils (S1 to...

Categories: Aberdeen, Aberdeen events, Agricultural & Landbased, Agricultural Technology, Agriculture, Animal & Biological, Animal Care, Animal Science, Ayr, Ayr events, Barony, Barony events, Biological Sciences, Business, Campus, College, Countryside Management, Degree, Distance Learning, Edinburgh, Edinburgh events, Elmwood, Elmwood events, Environment and Countryside, Environmental Management, Equine and Horse Care, Forestry and Arboriculture, Garden Design, Golf & Greenkeeping, Greenkeeping and Sports Turf, HN Level, Horticulture, Hospitality, Land-Based and Rural Skills, Land-based Engineering, Landscaping, Oatridge, Oatridge events, Organic Farming, Postgraduate, Poultry, Professional Certification, Professional Golf, SRUC Events, SRUC Subjects, Study level, Sustainability, Veterinary Nursing and Work-based Learning Tags: Animal Science, biological, biology, chemistry, Competition, Environmental, environmental science, geography, physics, science, sciences and STEM

National Gardening Week 2017

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Hannah D'Mellow

Is there anything more amazing than the sight of a well-maintained garden, full of life? No? Didn’t think so. From Monday April 10th – Sunday April 16th, gardeners across the...

Categories: Aberdeen, Agricultural & Landbased, Ayr, Barony, Campus, Countryside Management, Edinburgh, Elmwood, Garden Design, Landscaping and Oatridge Tags: #SRUCEdinburgh, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, National Gardening Week 2017, SRUC Aberdeen, SRUC Ayr, SRUC Barony, SRUC Edinburgh, SRUC Elmwood and SRUC Oatridge

Four facts for St. Patrick’s Day

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Hannah D'Mellow

It’s St. Patrick’s Day today which has become something of a global phenomenon where “everyone is Irish” and synonymous with imbibing “too much sherbet”, so to speak. However, the day...

Categories: Aberdeen, Advice, Agricultural & Landbased, Ayr, Barony, Edinburgh, Elmwood, Horticulture, Oatridge and Student Life Tags: Clover, Horticulture, Shamrock, SRUC Aberdeen, SRUC Ayr, SRUC Barony, SRUC Edinburgh, SRUC Elmwood, SRUC Oatridge and St. Patrick's Day

Sterling Silver!

Posted on March 13, 2017 by Hannah D'Mellow

Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) was awarded a Silver award at the prestigious College Development Network Marketing Awards, in the category of ‘Promotional Literature’. The award was presented for the Marketing...

Royal Northern Spring Show 2017

Posted on March 9, 2017 by Hannah D'Mellow

As is annual tradition, SRUC attended the Royal Northern Spring Show 2017 on Wednesday 1st of March at the Thainstone Centre, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire. One of Scotland’s first major events...

Categories: Aberdeen, Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Business, Campus, Countryside Management, Land-Based and Rural Skills and Land-based Engineering Tags: #Agriculture, Aberdeen, Landbased, Princess Royal, Royal Northern Spring Show, Rural and SRUC Aberdeen

Stephen Moore receives an award from Alasdair Straker of BAGMA at the Lantra awards.

Stephen Moore – modern apprentice award

Posted on March 6, 2017 by Hannah D'Mellow

SRUC is celebrating Skills Development Scotland (SDS) Modern Apprenticeship week – March 6-10 2017, showcasing the benefits apprenticeships bring to individuals, businesses and the economy via their students achievements and...

Categories: Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Land-based Engineering, Oatridge, Professional Certification, Student Life, Student Successes, Study level and Work-based Learning Tags: #Agriculture, Engineering, LANTRA, Modern Apprenticeship, SRUC Oatridge and Tractors

Free courses for green fingers

Posted on February 28, 2017 by Hannah D'Mellow

Spring has sprung and the grass has ris… We wonder where the peoples is. For green-fingered Fifers, there are some great opportunities to brush up on your gardening skills that...

Categories: Agricultural & Landbased, Campus, Elmwood, Garden Design, Horticulture and Land-Based and Rural Skills Tags: Allotments, Barry and Dave, Cupar, Fife, Fife Coast and Countryside Trust, Gardening, Horticulture, Lochore meadows and SRUC Elmwood

MSc Distance Learning students enjoy a Burns Supper at SRUC Aberdeen Campus

Climate Cafe study weekend at SRUC Aberdeen

Posted on February 9, 2017 by Hannah D'Mellow

SRUC runs a number of distance learning programmes with HNC Poultry Production and HNC Countryside Management popular undergraduate courses. In addition, we offer five MSc programmes offering a range of...

Categories: Aberdeen, Aberdeen events, Agricultural & Landbased, Organic Farming, Postgraduate, Student Life and Student Visits Tags: Aberdeen, Climate Cafe Project, Distance Learning, MSc, Organic Farming, SRUCAberdeen and Study Weekend

Second year agriculture students study tour

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Hannah D'Mellow

Second year agriculture students from SRUC’s Edinburgh campus headed down to the north of England for their study tour. See what they got up to:

Categories: Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Degree, Student Life and Student Visits Tags: #Agriculture, #SRUCEdinburgh, #SRUCVisits, Degree, Edinburgh and Study Tour Formats:

Second year agriculture students visit Orchard Farm in Derbyshire, March 2016

Second year agriculture study tour

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Hannah D'Mellow

Second year Agriculture students from SRUC Edinburgh are on their study tour in the North of England. Here’s a fabby photo of them checking out the latest kit at Amazone Orchard...

Categories: Agricultural & Landbased, Agriculture, Edinburgh and Student Visits Tags: #Agriculture, #SRUCEdinburgh and #SRUCVisits Formats: