An Arran student has won a prestigious Saltire Scholarship and is presently gaining invaluable work experience the United States.
Lois Crawford, second left, with Katie-Rose MacDonald, Katie White and Jay Alexander Clifford, who are also on Saltire scholarships.
Former Arran High pupil Lois Crawford, from Blackwaterfoot, has just turned 21 and is studying marketing and human resource management at Strathclyde University, and is interning with the Silicon Valley Bank in Santa Clara, California.
Entrepreneurial Scotland’s Saltire Scholarship programme places high potential undergraduates in their penultimate year of study from univer sities across Scotland on paid summer internships with leading organisations around the world. Saltire Scholarships are fully funded through supporters and donors of the Saltire Foundation, a registered Scottish charity which is operated by Entrepreneurial Scotland and exists to find, fuel and spark Scotland’s next generation of business leaders.
The Saltire Foundation was founded in 2007 by Global Scotland, the charitable arm of Entrepreneurial Scotland. The Saltire Scholarship programme has grown from six scholars in 2007 to 143 scholars in 2016 – the largest ever cohort.