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Down on the farm – guest blog from Royal Highland Education Trust
24th December 2019
Guest blog from Sara Smith, Learning and Development Co-ordinator at the Royal Highland Education Trust Throughout the year, come rain or shine, farmers open their gates to provide young people with the opportunity to find out about food production. The charity The Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET) works with farmers and growers across Scotland to…
Developing the Young Workforce wins silver Future Policy Award
16th October 2019
Developing the Young Workforce has been recognised with an international policy award. On Friday 11 October 2019, the World Future Council revealed that Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) was among the policies selected to receive a silver award in what it dubs ‘the Oscar for best policies’ for empowering youth at a ceremony in Geneva…
Two top physics students presented with Higgs Prize
4th October 2019
Agnijo Banerjee and Jane Ambler were awarded the 2018 Higgs Prize for achieving the top scores in the 2018 Advanced Higher physics exam. The prize is named after Edinburgh-based Nobel prize winner Professor Peter Higgs CH, whose work has advanced our understanding of how the particles that make up the world around us are held…