Perth College already helps Avalon with cabin crew and pilot training and has educational links with a university in Andhra Pradesh and colleges in Kerala, Hyderabad and Mumbai.
CASH totalling over £200,000 has been allocated by the Scottish Gove
rnment to support international students who remain in Scotland after completing their studies. The funding, which will help 16 projects in nine universities and colleges, was announced by Minister for Europe, External Affairs and Culture Linda Fabiani. Grants range from £1,650 to North Glasgow College for workshops on study and career options, to £68,564 to Glasgow University’s student placements scheme run with Aberdeen, Dundee and Stirling universities. Glasgow University will also receive £9,940 to help students with language skills for interviews.
• TWO physics graduates from Dundee University have been asked to present details of their honours projects on ultrasound-activated drug activity to events being held in the US and Canada. Matt Mullan has been asked to give a paper at the 30th annual international conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in Vancouver in August. Meanwhile, Pauline Axford has been invited to address the Society for Optical Engineering’s conference in San Diego.
• YOUNG people in schools and colleges across the UK have been challenged to create the next YouTube video hit in a competition launched by Dundee University. The interactive media design programme at the university has asked 15 to 21-year-olds to make a three-minute video on the theme “artificially intelligent”. Entries will be split into two age groups, 15-17 and 18-21, with the winner in each section receiving a prize of £500. More details at
imd.dundee.ac.uk/competition• TO CELEBRATE the forthcoming International Year of Astronomy, primary schools in Scotland have been invited to help create a new constellation in a project funded by the Royal Astronomical Society. The scheme will see the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor John Brown, and artist Gill Russell visit schools and run workshops for P5-7 pupils. For more information contact gill.russell@ cosmicsky.co.uk
AWARDSPUPILS from Campbeltown Grammar School won a wind turbine for their school after being declared winners of a competition to design the goodie bags for the recent Black and White carbon-neutral ball in aid of the Prince’s Trust. Robyn-Anne Blackburn and Christopher Sloss’s design was selected from a shortlist of three by singer and Prince’s Trust ambassador Will Young, and the pair were each presented with an iPod, as well as the wind turbine for the school. The competition runners-up came from Whitburn Academy and Bannockburn High School, and the ball raised over £50,000 for the Prince’s Trust.
EVENTSSCOTTISH Education Minister Fiona Hyslop will be among the speakers at the Scottish Learning Festival taking place in Glasgow on 24 and 25 September. She will be joined by Richard Teese, an education expert from Melbourne University and Charles Leadbeater, an authority on innovation and creativity, in addressing the conference, this year based on the theme of Curriculum for Excellence. For more information visit
www.ltscotland.org.uk