Educational ties between the UK and growing oil and gas province Brazil were strengthened in a recent trade visit to the country by senior UK ministers.
Included in a series of agreements made on the visit was a £4.5million research partnership between BG Group, Aberdeen University and the University of Rio Grande de Sul.
This will involve 25 PhD students from UK and Brazil spending time in each other’s countries on joint projects.
Peterhead's Score Group saw its largest crop of graduations from Banff and Buchan college this year.
05/11/2012
Fostering graduates with scholarship initiative
Aberdeen-based engineer Andy Reid has been awarded Subsea UK’s 2012 scholarship.
Reid, 24, a senior electronic engineer at Aker Solutions, is to receive £7,500 towards a post-graduate MSc in subsea engineering.
The scholarship programme was introduced last year by Subsea UK in an effort to increase the number of highly-skilled and qualified subsea engineers in the industry and has a number of students currently on the programme.
Reid, 24, a senior electronic engineer at Aker Solutions, is to receive £7,500 towards a post-graduate MSc in subsea engineering.
The scholarship programme was introduced last year by Subsea UK in an effort to increase the number of highly-skilled and qualified subsea engineers in the industry and has a number of students currently on the programme.
05/11/2012
Sponsorship deal for varsity
GDF Suez E&P UK is to sponsor a course at Aberdeen University to help further oil and gas education.
Some £40,000 of funding from the firm will enable the university’s operations geology short course to run for three years.
The course is core to the curriculum in the exploHUB MSc in Hydrocarbon Exploration and the MSc in Integrated Petroleum Geology.
Some £40,000 of funding from the firm will enable the university’s operations geology short course to run for three years.
The course is core to the curriculum in the exploHUB MSc in Hydrocarbon Exploration and the MSc in Integrated Petroleum Geology.
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