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SAC Very Proud – “Garden Design Students win Chelsea Silver Gilt Medal.”
Published: 22 May 2012
SAC Principal and Chief Executive Professor Bob Webb has congratulated the 6 SAC HND Garden Design Students who have just been awarded a RHS Silver-Gilt Medal at the Chelsea Flower Show. Professor Webb will be visiting the world famous horticultural event this week and looks forward to congratulating them in person.
SAC Riverside Student’s Legendary Effort
Published: 17 May 2012
SAC Students in the 2nd year of their Sports Coaching & Development course organised an Ayr 'Fans & Legends' United match at Somerset Park on Sunday 13th May 2012. With money still to come in it’s expected to have raised over £5,000.
SAC Chelsea Garden Goes South
Published: 17 May 2012
The SAC entry for the Chelsea Flower Show has headed south.
Distance No Object to SAC Post Graduate Organics Students
Published: 17 May 2012
Students on SAC’s Post Graduate Diploma and MSC course in Organic Farming travelled to Craibstone recently for their study weekend. It is always a highlight as the students, who are studying by distance learning, only get to meet each other every now and then. It is a pretty intense couple of days but a period that combines business and socialising in (almost) equal measure.
SAC Establishes Further Links with China
Published: 17 May 2012
SAC Professors, Geoff Simm and David McKenzie have just returned from a productive visit to China where they continued SAC’s development of mutually beneficial relationships in teaching, research and consultancy. This time the contacts made were in Inner Mongolia and Nanjing on the lower Yangtze River Delta.
Death of Former Auchincruive Deputy Principal
Published: 17 May 2012
Dr David Martin died recently, he was Deputy Principal of the West of Scotland Agricultural College. Dr Martin had spent most of his professional life at WSAC, starting in 1954 as a Field Officer and moving on to become a Colin Thomson Research Student, a lecturer in Botany and then Head of the Botany Department.