Students show off their skills in top contest

Published on Monday 9 November 2009 08:55

FOUR city students have won prizes in a leading skills competition.

The Stevenson College students were among 90 young people to be presented with awards at the Scottish Worldskills ceremony.

Paul Clark, a computer networking student, won the bronze prize in the Cisco ITC Networking Challenge and three HND Music students, Fay Sheret, Lisa Wickstead and Laura Dixon, came third in the music category.

Margaret Clark, a lecturer in computing at Stevenson, said: "We are really proud of Paul.

"It's great when students receive awards like this as it recognises both their hard work and the hard work that is put in by the lecturing staff.

"Because the computing and IT industry moves and evolves so quickly, we have to constantly reinvent our courses to ensure that they are relevant to employers.

"Winning awards like this demonstrates that we are delivering the kind of courses employers want and that we are providing our students with industry standard education and training."