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International Scottish Students

NUS Scotland has launched a ‘Scotland Goes Global’ initiative designed to raise levels of international mobility among Scottish students with the ‘Year of Study Abroad’ beginning in September. At a conference a few weeks ago it...

Published 03-May-2012 8:50 by ClaireJohnston

Filed under: Saltire Foundation, international study, internships, Scotland Goes Global

Careers Blog- Focus on Law

As with my blog yesterday, this blog was inspired by a University of Glasgow Law School event I spoke at in January. I was part of a panel on non-legal careers for law students which included representatives from the Glasgow Herald, Barclays Wealth and...

Published 03-Apr-2012 15:19 by Katie Michels

Filed under: Saltire Foundation, employment, internships, jobs, careers, international, law

Careers Blog- Focus on the Arts

This blog post is inspired by an event which I attended as a speaker last month—The Wee Conference for the Arts at the University of Glasgow. It was a fantastic event and I was honoured to be on a panel with representatives from Glasgow City Council...

Published 02-Apr-2012 14:44 by Katie Michels

Filed under: Scholars, Saltire Foundation, employment, arts students, jobs, careers, international

The Expectation Gap

Yesterday I watched a Forbes.com interview of Sean Carter (aka Jay-Z) in which he discussed business decisions with Warren Buffet and Steve Forbes (http://onforb.es/s855XS). I thought it was a very interesting discussion, particularly the contrast in...

Published 16-Dec-2011 9:04 by Katie Michels

Student Skills & The Global Economy

Two reports have come out this month highlighting student and employer attitudes toward student international experience in the UK. The Next Generation UK report from the British Council and YouGov, found that: • “While almost two-thirds felt...

Published 09-Dec-2011 8:23 by Katie Michels

Filed under: Saltire Foundation, employment, British Council, internships

Entrepreneurship in the Scottish Diaspora: A Historical Perspective

The Scottish Diaspora has a global reputation for entrepreneurship and innovation. Historically, the Scots have indeed ‘punched well above their weight’ in terms of their influence over business, politics, education and religion around the...

Published 23-Nov-2011 13:26 by ClaireJohnston

Inspired, motivated and excited about the future: A student’s perspective on global entrepreneurship.

Let me tell you a little bit about myself: I currently live in Glasgow which has a population of 592,820 I am a student at the University of Strathclyde which has 15,000 undergraduate students I am specifically part of the Business School where I am in...

Published 19-Nov-2011 20:34 by Tina Dickson

South African Entrepreneurship

Hello from sunny Cape Town! Before I started working for the Saltire Foundation when I would think of an entrepreneur two images would come to mind. The first image was of the archetypical serial entrepreneur such as Richard Branson. The other image came...

Published 18-Nov-2011 10:02 by Katie Michels

Filed under: Global Entrepreneurship Week

Life on the other side of the table!

This week I was lucky enough to be involved in helping with conducting the interviews for next year’s potential 2012 Scholars! This also meant that I got to reunite with some of the other 2011 Scholars for a catch-up and mini reunion. It is scary...

Published 08-Nov-2011 21:15 by Tina Dickson

UK Students & Study Abroad

A few weeks ago The Guardian ran an opinion piece by Sue Littlemore entitled, “ Should international study be at the heart of higher education? ” In this article, startling statistics were highlighted: • For every UK student who is exported...

Published 27-Oct-2011 11:23 by Katie Michels

Filed under: international study

A new Saltire journey begins.....

Summer is over… internships completed… travelling is done and uni has started. That pretty much summarised where I was at a few weeks ago. After a crazy few months it was a bit of an anti-climax returning to university, Glasgow and back...

Published 23-Oct-2011 23:57 by Tina Dickson

The SF Team Expands!

I hope everyone will join me in welcoming Tina Dickson and Rory Herron to the Saltire Foundation team. Tina will be our Communications Assistant and Rory our Programme Assistant. Both will be working for us part-time while they finish their university...

Published 21-Oct-2011 12:57 by Katie Michels

Filed under: Saltire Foundation

"The Ball is Yours"

I can hardly believe that it has been 10 days since the 2010-2011 Saltire Fellows graduated! It was really a special day and I felt very honoured to be included amongst the guests. So congratulations again to Amina, Bec, Claire, David, Fahd, Joanne, Madhu...

Published 09-Aug-2011 15:56 by Katie Michels

Citizen Diplomats

Having lived overseas for 7 out of the past 10 years one issue near and dear to my heart is citizen diplomacy. Citizen diplomacy is the idea that relationships between countries does not just happen between governments, but between average citizens. The...

Published 28-Jul-2011 13:47 by Katie Michels

Oh, the Places They’ll Go….

It has been one week since our 2011 Saltire Scholar Induction Day and I am still feeling the positive energy from the day. It was fantastic to get to interact with all of the 2011 Scholars and experience their excitement to go on their placement. It was...

Published 23-Jun-2011 8:58 by Katie Michels

Filed under: alumni, Scholars, Saltire

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