The Barony Campus of Scotland’s Rural College recently hosted a group of international youth workers on a fact finding trip, as part of an international training conference held by Dumfries and Galloway Council.
The youth workers and volunteers came from as far afield as Poland, Latvia and Romania – all visiting Scotland for the first time. They were given a tour of the facilities including the Animal Care Training Centre, the robotic milking machines in the Scottish Dairy Technology Centre, the Scottish Forest Industry Technology Centre (SFITC) and Engineering facilities.
The group also learned about the range of courses on offer at the campus including the options to progress through the levels of education within SRUC, and observed students participating in practical sessions, including problem solving classes in the Engineering department.”
Talking about the international visitors, Senior Tutor Julie Parker commented:
“SRUC and Barony Campus have excellent international links, I was delighted to welcome such an enthusiastic and interesting group. The Youth Workers thoroughly enjoyed their visit and tour of the campus.”
“The visitors were very impressed with the courses and learning resources on offer at Barony Campus, in addition to our other five campuses in Scotland. They plan to spread the word to their colleagues and the young people they work with. The subjects of Agriculture and Animal Care were of particular interest to the visitors, these were the areas they highlighted that the young people they work with would be most interested.”
More information on the range of courses available at the Barony Campus can be found at https://www.sruc.ac.uk/Barony
Photograph: Youth Workers visiting Barony Campus – SRUC Barony’s Schools Co-ordinator Laura Williamson (on far left) and Senior Tutor Julie Parker (far right).
The youth workers were part of the Erasmus+ programme in a week long training residential hosted in Dumfries. The youth workers and volunteers, all aged 18-31 came from Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. The training was also open to eight Scottish youth workers/ volunteers
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