The University of Dundee was host to 32 young students from around the world as part of a global British Council campaign to showcase UK education.
Accompanied by a film crew and a photographer, their 36 hour visit to Dundee will result in footage, case studies and visuals forming part of a British Council international marketing campaign to highlight the best of UK education.
The students, who entered competitions organised in their own countries by the British Council to win a trip of a lifetime to the UK started their day in Dundee with a fitness session at 7.15am led by Kirsteen Cruickshanks from the Institute of Sport and Exercise and some of the University’s Excel scholars. They spent the rest of the morning in Ninewells taking part in hands on sessions in Clinical Skills and in Surgical Skills with Professor Sir Alfred Cuschieri.
After a healthy lunch inspired by Professor Annie Anderson’s berry project, the students saw the new £15 million animation laboratories in the School of Television and Imaging and were addressed by University of Dundee graduate, Entrepreneur of the Year and President of VIS Entertainment plc Chris van der Kuyl.
The students aged 16-18 from Brazil, Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Russia, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam and Malaysia enjoyed a ceilidh in the evening at Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, compered by BBC comedian and University Rector Fred MacAulay.
