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Travel advice ahead of Scotland v Georgia match
21st November 2016Rugby Park plays host to Scotland’s third and final Autumn International in Kilmarnock on Saturday 26 November, and ScotRail is reminding customers travelling to the game by train that services will be busier than normal, following last week’s emphatic win over Argentina. ScotRail will be adding carriages to services…
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Budding designer wins jewellery challenge
21st November 2016Orcadian student wins Scotland-wide competition, marking Scotland’s Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design An Orcadian student is set to have her winning competition designs brought to life after wowing judges with her range of contemporary jewellery, inspired by one of Scotland’s Neolithic sites. Historic Environment Scotland partnered with…
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Edinburgh to host Eurocities conference In 2018
21st November 2016One of the most prestigious conferences in Europe, EUROCITIES, is to be held at the EICC in Edinburgh in 2018. The announcement was made this morning at this year’s conference and AGM being hosted in Milan.
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Killer Flu is Hiding in Your Dirty Desks
21st November 2016Unbelievably, the 1918 flu pandemic killed 50 million people worldwide, and flu still contributes to tens of thousands of deaths each year. Estimates suggest that flu recently resulted in up to 49,000 deaths in the US (CDC).
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Balancing the pros and cons of incorporating a charity
21st November 2016The tenth anniversary of OSCR, Scotland’s charity regulator, has seen a number of changes to the way it regulates charities. One significant development affects any existing charity thinking about becoming incorporated and it comes into effect this month (November 2016).
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Iron Age settlers in Easter Ross revealed as intellectual leaders
21st November 2016A new publication makes a compelling argument that the Picts of Northern Scotland offered a sequence of highly sophisticated responses to the politics of the rest of Britain and continental Europe. The project uncovered evidence that between the sixth and the sixteenth centuries, the little fishing village of Portmahomack was reinvented respectively as an elite settlement, a monastery, a Viking trading place, and a medieval township.”
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Converge Challenge brings together top academic and business leaders
21st November 2016Scotland’s leading company creation competition and entrepreneurship development programme for students, graduates and staff from the country’s universities and research institutes announces its new Strategic Advisory Board (SAB).
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FanDuel and DraftKings Agree to Strategic Merger of Equals
21st November 2016Fantasy sports technology companies DraftKings and FanDuel today announced they have entered into a merger agreement. The transaction is expected to close in 2017. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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Accessory Collective at Hill Street Design House
18th November 2016This year's 'Accessory Collective' is happening at the Hill St Design House from the 25th to the 18th of December, 10am - 7pm.
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Cornerstone recognised as top provider at SQA awards
18th November 2016Leading Scottish social care charity, Cornerstone, has been recognised as one of the country’s top training providers at an awards ceremony in Edinburgh. The charity has been delivering SQA Scottish Vocational Qualifications (SVQs) in Care and Management to its staff since 1995, enabling them to better carry out their work with vulnerable people and ensure they are compliant with rules set out by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC). Cornerstone was recognised with the SQA Star Award for Lifelong Learning (Centre) after the judges were impressed that 90% of Cornerstone employees believed their SVQ helped them to provide a better quality of service to their clients.
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