College kids from throughout Glasgow have been ‘gowned up’ for the primary commencement ceremony of the College of Strathclyde’s Younger Strathclyder programme.
The Younger Strathclyder programme is in its pilot yr and replaces the College’s earlier involvement within the Youngsters’s College initiative.
Greater than 300 pupils from Annette Road Main, Cuthbertson Main, Dunard Main, Glendale Main, Oakwood Main, St Benedict’s Main, St Patrick’s Main, St Rose of Lima Main – and their dad and mom, carers and lecturers – attended the ceremony on the College’s Barony Corridor, sporting robes and mortarboards, the place they obtained their certificates of feat from the Principal & Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Jim McDonald.
Pupils from Chirnsyde Main and St Timothy’s Main additionally participated within the programme however have been unable to attend the commencement ceremony on account of different commitments.
A complete of 404 Main 6 pupils and 417 Main 7 pupils had taken half in a full day of participating and interactive actions, both on campus or at college, representing the main focus of our College’s 4 Colleges of Engineering, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Strathclyde Enterprise College.
Sense of belonging
Workers from throughout the Colleges labored along with the College’s Entry, Equality & Inclusion service to design the interactive actions whereas third-year Enterprise College college students, collaborating within the Administration Growth Programme’s Social Duty Pathway, labored on the branding for the programme and designed enterprise actions for pupils to finish.
Pupils have been led by means of these actions by 87 scholar mentors representing every School, lots of whom come from widening entry backgrounds and have been the primary of their household to go to school.
Sir Jim stated: “Our Younger Strathclyder programme is aimed toward serving to younger individuals – and their dad and mom and carers – construct an actual sense of belonging and confidence inside a Increased Training setting and to keep up a give attention to their post-school targets by offering recommendation and steering on topic decisions and profession alternatives.
“It was a vastly pleasing occasion and, as a socially-progressive establishment dedicated to taking part in a key position in our area people, I stay up for these younger individuals persevering with to have interaction with Strathclyde over the approaching years.”
Big success
There are three major phases to the Younger Strathclyder programme:
Younger Strathclyder Main
Younger Strathclyder S2
Younger Strathclyder Speed up for S5 & S6
In S2, pupils may have the possibility to search out out extra about areas of research that they’re interested by as they start to assume extra concerning the sorts of jobs they want to do when they’re older.
In S5 and S6, pupils may have the chance to take part in Younger Strathclyder Speed up, a week-long summer season programme on campus specializing in the actual tutorial space they’re interested by happening to review at college.
There are seven subject-specific challenges on this yr’s Speed up programme, increasing to 10 topic areas subsequent yr. A spread of different on-line and distant actions shall be provided to pupils as they progress by means of faculty, together with actions primarily based on Sport, Sustainability & Entrepreneurship.
Subsequent yr, the Younger Strathclyder programme will develop to incorporate 15 major colleges, and eight excessive colleges will be part of the brand new S2 programme.
Aileen Wilson, Senior Engagement and Outreach Officer at Strathclyde who leads the first faculty aspect of the Younger Strathclyder programme, stated: “This primary yr of the programme has been an enormous success and we’ve been delighted to see so many colleges and pupils participate. We very a lot stay up for rising the Younger Strathclyder programme additional and elevating the training aspirations of future generations of youngsters.”