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Student success stories

Every summer, students head to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland to gain valuable experience with short placements working with local businesses and social enterprises. Here are some of their experiences.

  • Kerry Macleod

    New Start Highland

    Working for a third sector organisation for the first time, Kerry used her summer placement to gain experience and find out if this working environment would suit her.

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  • Allan MacIntyre

    Albasoft Ltd

    A computing student at Strathclyde University, Allan MacIntyre explains how his student summer placement taught him several, very useful new languages.

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  • Lucy Brown

    Community Energy Scotland, Dingwall

    Sociology student Lucy Brown took full advantage of an eight-week summer placement in a rich and varied work environment to make some great contacts for the future, as she explains.

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Other success stories

Alex Gilbert and Marc Macleod

Greenspace Live Ltd Stornoway

For Alex and Marc, student placements at a company promoting green living were an opportunity to apply their up-to-date university knowledge to an important new proposal.

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Allan MacIntyre

Albasoft Ltd

A computing student at Strathclyde University, Allan MacIntyre explains how his student summer placement taught him several, very useful new languages.

View full story about Allan MacIntyre

Angus Vajk

Glycomar

A switch of degree meant that Angus Vajk could broaden his skills with a summer placement in his home town of Oban. He explains what happened.

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Karen Yeung

Aquatera

Studying Ecology, Karen benefitted from working at an environmental consultancy in Orkney.

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Katrina Mackenzie

Caithness Chamber of Commerce

Her summer placement prepared Katrina for her final year dissertation by helping her develop the necessary research skills and also giving her the idea for the topic.

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Kerry Macleod

New Start Highland

Working for a third sector organisation for the first time, Kerry used her summer placement to gain experience and find out if this working environment would suit her.

View full story about Kerry Macleod

Lucy Brown

Community Energy Scotland, Dingwall

Sociology student Lucy Brown took full advantage of an eight-week summer placement in a rich and varied work environment to make some great contacts for the future, as she explains.

View full story about Lucy Brown

Lynsey MacGillivray

SOLV Ltd

Lynsey spent her summer placement in her home town Fort William and applied her mathematical skills in a software company.

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