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Forestry apprentices use cutting-edge technology

Posted on March 6, 2019 by Shona Warwick

Scotland’s Rural College is the first institute in the UK to have used cutting-edge technology to log students’ progression towards operating forest machinery. At the start of Scottish Apprenticeship Week...

Categories: Agricultural & Landbased, Apprenticeships, Barony, Campus, College, Forestry and Arboriculture, Land-Based and Rural Skills and Uncategorized Tags: apprentice, apprenticeship, Forestry, John Deere, modern apprentice, Modern Apprenticeship and SRUCBarony

Scottish Apprenticeship Week – Daniel Murdoch

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Anouska Curzon

When Daniel Murdoch left school he decided to volunteer at two local golf courses to gain work experience before going to Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) to do a full-time Greenkeeping...

Categories: Advice, Apprenticeships, Elmwood, Student Life, Student opportunities, Student Successes and Work-based Learning Tags: apprenticeship, Elmwood, Fife, Golf, greenkeeper, Greenkeeping, Modern Apprenticeship, Scottish Apprenticeships and turf management

Scottish Apprenticeship Week- Erica Taylor

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Kenneth Brooksbank

Erica Taylor- Agriculture- crops Erica joined SRUC at the start of the harvest in 2017, her work, in a very male-dominated workplace was inspiring to those around her and she...

Categories: Agriculture, Apprenticeships, Student Life, Student Successes and Work-based Learning Tags: apprenticeship, erica taylor, MA, Scottish Apprenticeships and SRUC

Celebrating SRUC’s Apprentices for Scottish Apprenticeship Week

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Kenneth Brooksbank

This week is Scottish Apprenticeships week and to mark this, we will be telling the story of our apprentices, from Engineering to Horticulture. To kick us off is Nathan Allardyce, a...

Categories: Apprenticeships, Land-based Engineering, Oatridge, Student Life, Student Successes and Work-based Learning Tags: apprenticeship, Engineering, learn, Modern Apprenticeship, Oatridge, scotland, SRUC, Tractors and work-based learning

MA Land-based Engineering: “I really contribute to all areas of the business”

Posted on March 6, 2018 by Hannah D'Mellow

Mathew Howie currently works at J T Walkers Agricultural Engineering , completing his Modern Apprenticeship with SRUC in Land-Based Engineering (Agricultural Machinery). Mathew said “I was interested in tractors from...