Susan Walsh, the principal of Cardonald College, Glasgow, will join chartered management accountant James Edgar on the executive of the organisation for a period of four years.
Ms Walsh is a former principal of Stevenson College, Edinburgh, and a
board member of the Scottish Further Education Unit. Mr Edgar also served on the Stevenson College board, having been its chair for four years.
• A FORMER chief constable of Fife police is to be awarded an honorary professorship by Dundee University.
Peter Wilson, who retired from service in May, has been given the accolade by the university's school of social and environmental sciences following a distinguished career that saw him lead the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland.
NEWSPUPILS at Biggar Primary came to school dressed in the colours of Tanzania as part of a fundraising effort to send one of its teachers to the country to help build a primary school.
Laura Ferguson, a primary four teacher at Biggar, is in Tanzania as part of the Community Projects Africa programme.
She raised £3,000 for the trip and the children's efforts contributed £220 to her fund. She is working as part of a group constructing a school building for a remote Masai community.
• WINDOWS that operate automatically, and doors that unlock via the movement of an eye, are among the innovations included in the living area of a state-of-the-art facility opened at Capability Scotland's Stanmore House School in Lanark on Friday.
The Life Skills Base provides disabled pupils with an introduction to new technology that is available to help them live their lives after they leave the school.
EVENTSSCOTTISH artist Jack Vettriano will face a range of questions from the public at an event held in aid of the Adam Smith Foundation at Adam Smith College in Kirkcaldy on 27 October.
"An audience with Jack Vettriano" will begin with an interview conducted by BBC journalist Anne Mackenzie, before the artist takes questions from the floor in what is the second event he has participated in at the college in recent years. Tickets cost £10 and are available by calling 01592 223 416.
AWARDS• PROFESSOR Joan Stringer, the principal of Napier University, became the first international winner of an award given by China's Henan Province at a ceremony hosted by the Henan Governor recently.
The International Yellow River Friendship Award was given to Prof Stringer in recognition of an ongoing exchange between Zhengzhou University of Light Industry and Napier.
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