News / Scholarship for top student
A FORMER pupil of Lerwick’s Anderson High School has become one of only 540 top students from across the UK to be awarded a scholarship from the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET).
Ross Jamieson, from Lerwick, will this week embark on a four-year course in engineering at Strathclyde University.
Earlier this week, he learned that he had been successful in applying for the Diamond Jubilee Scholarship, which will give him an annual bursary of £1,000 for the time of his studies.
To qualify for the scholarships he had to achieve at least three A grades at advanced highers level, a hurdle the 17 year old easily managed to cross.
Speaking on Wednesday before setting off to Glasgow he said: “I think the scholarship will make a huge difference to my studies at the University of Strathclyde as I have support from one of the UK’s leading organisations for engineering.
“This also rounds off all of the work I put into my sixth year at the Anderson High School.”
He added that he was hoping to eventually be able to find work in the oil and gas industry, as this would offer options to work abroad but also nearer to home.
A proud Paul Thomason, teacher for physics at the Anderson High, said: “I am delighted that Ross has been awarded this scholarship. He embraced every opportunity available to him during sixth year.
“Rarely have I come across such a dedicated and hardworking student. This is a fitting award and I wish him all the very best for his future studies in engineering.”
The IET received 1,144 applications of which 540 were successful in meeting the criteria. Nineteen per cent of the successful applicants were female.
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