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SWGS Scholarship spots student talent

Posted on April 3, 2019 by Anouska Curzon

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...

Categories: Degree, Edinburgh, Horticulture, Student Life, Student opportunities and Student Successes Tags: Edinburgh, flowers, Gardening, Horticulture, Scholarship, SRUC and success
MSP Emma Harper with students

Barony Digital Classroom Launch

Posted on February 19, 2019 by Shona Warwick

Our new state-of-the-art digital classroom was unveiled last week at Barony. It is believed to be the first of its kind in the region. SRUC has invested around £80,000 to...

Categories: Agriculture, Animal Care, Barony, College, Degree, Forestry and Arboriculture, HN Level, Land-Based and Rural Skills, Land-based Engineering, Student opportunities, Uncategorized and Veterinary Nursing Tags: #Agriculture, Animal Care, Engineering, Forestry, Forestry and Arboriculture, Land-based engineering, rural skills, SRUC Agriculture, SRUCBarony and Veterinary Nursing
Chinchilas

Out of the Blue (Monday)

Posted on January 21, 2019 by Anouska Curzon

The third Monday of January has been awarded the gloomy name Blue Monday due to a combination of post-Christmas blues, cold dark nights and financial woes. As SRUC offers courses...

Categories: Advice, Animal Care, Countryside Management, Degree, Environment and Countryside, Garden Design, HN Level, Horticulture, Hospitality, Professional Golf, SRUC Subjects, Student Life, Study level and Uncategorized Tags: AYR, blue monay, Countryside, Edinburgh, Elmwood, environment, Garden Design, Golf, Horticulture, hospitality, management, SRUC and Study
Jennifer Cadger

No Business Like Sow Business

Posted on November 14, 2018 by Anouska Curzon

Jennifer Cadger is a lecturer in Rural Business Management for Year 1 students at SRUC in Edinburgh. Cultivate caught up with her to find out more about her role and what...

Categories: Advice, Business, Campus, Degree, Edinburgh, HN Level and Uncategorized Tags: #Agriculture, #SRUCEdinburgh, Advice, business, business degree, lecturer, Rural Business, Rural Business Management and SRUC

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, Agricultural & Landbased, Agricultural Technology, Agriculture, Animal & Biological, Animal Care, Animal Science, Ayr, Barony, Biological Sciences, Business, Campus, College, Countryside Management, Degree, Distance Learning, Edinburgh, Elmwood, Environment and Countryside, Environmental Management, Equine and Horse Care, Forestry and Arboriculture, Garden Design, Gardening Scotland, Golf & Greenkeeping, Greenkeeping and Sports Turf, HN Level, Horticulture, Hospitality, Land-Based and Rural Skills, Land-based Engineering, Landscaping, Oatridge, Organic Farming, Postgraduate, Poultry, Professional Certification, Professional Golf, Renewables, SRUC Subjects, Study level, Sustainability and Veterinary Nursing
Jo King holding a small bat

Jo King – BSc Hons Countryside Management graduate of 2018

Posted on August 28, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

Congratulations to Jo King, who after graduating with BSc Hons in Countryside Management from Ayr Campus, is going on to do great things in her new job. Jo will be...

Categories: Ayr, Countryside Management, Degree, Environment and Countryside, SRUC Subjects, Student Life, Student Successes and Study level Tags: Countryside management, environment, Environmental, SRUC Ayr and SRUCcess
vet nursing students with tortoise and cow

All Creatures Great and Small

Posted on August 27, 2018 by Shona Warwick

We have become one of only two institutions in Scotland – and only ten in the UK – to offer a degree in Veterinary Nursing. Welcoming our first intake next...

Categories: Barony, Degree, HN Level, Uncategorized and Veterinary Nursing Tags: Animal, RCVS, SRUC, SRUC Barony, SRUCBarony, Vet Nursing, Veterinary and Veterinary Nursing
Ailidh Reid, BSc Countryside Management Graduate 2018

Ailidh Reed – SRUCcess

Posted on July 11, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

Ailidh Reid graduated this year with a BSc (Hons) Countryside Management from SRUC Ayr, and factors this as the primary reason for being successful in securing the role of a...

Categories: Ayr, Countryside Management, Degree, Environment and Countryside, Student Life and Student Successes Tags: Countryside management, SRUC Ayr and SRUCcess

Alicja Kaczmarczyk, Environmental Management

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

Alicja Kaczmarczyk, originally from Poland, came to SRUC to study Environmental Management. As a mature student with a long break from full time education, the decision to change career path...

Categories: Change your path, Degree, Edinburgh, Environment and Countryside, Environmental Management and Sustainability Tags: #changeyourpath, course, Ecology, environment, Environmental, environmental protection, Environmental Resource Management, mature, sustainability and sustainble

Freshwater field trip

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

Second year students studying the HND or BSc/BSc (Hons) Environmental Resource Management at SRUC’s Edinburgh Campus can be seen here visiting the River Almond as part of their Freshwater Environment...

Categories: Countryside Management, Degree, Edinburgh, Environment and Countryside, Environmental Management, HN Level, SRUC Subjects, Student Life, Student Visits, Sustainability and Uncategorized Tags: #SRUCEdinburgh, Almondell and Calderwood, Conservation, country Park, Edinburgh, environment, Environmental, environmental protection, Environmental Resource Management, freshwater, Ranger and water