Nursing – a transatlantic exchange

A transatlantic exchange programme has seen nursing students from Scotland and America compare their countries’ healthcare systems and university training, as part of a strategic partnership between the cities of Aberdeen and Houston. Two students from Houston Baptist University (HBU) have spent two weeks in May 2018 in the North-east, working alongside their counterparts and […]

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Burns Night: is haggis good for you?

Tonight around the world Scottish people will celebrate Burns Night by dining on traditional fare – haggis. Burns night  commemorates the life of the poet Robert Burns, who was born on January 25th 1759. Although his best known work is Auld Lang Syne, Burns also had space in his heart for the bulbous haggis. Indeed he […]

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Creating opportunities for rural Scots to study medicine

The Hippocratic Post - teenagers

The first students have been accepted to a new course that gives the most promising secondary pupils from rural areas and less advantaged backgrounds a unique opportunity to study medicine in Aberdeen. Places are still available on the course, which is a joint initiative by the University of Aberdeen and North East Scotland College (NESCOL). […]

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