Academic Leadership

Last night I attended an excellent dinner at which the speaker was Professor Ferdinand von-Prondzynski, recently appointed Principal of Robert Gordon University, here in Aberdeen. I was specially pleased to know that he was planning to continue, and indeed build, on the university’s links with business. It’s such a mutually enriching relationship  - as we have found in our business.

Recently we have had a new graduate from the university work with us to develop our social media strategy, supervised by a lecturer from the Business School. We got the benefit of the freshest possible knowledge about social media and in return he got more work experience. We are looking forward to further collaboration with the School of Computing during this academic year. We will again be able to access a very high level of skill and in return offer some real work experience to a final year student which will help her launch her career. Working with these talented young people has put a spring in my step and hopefully I can offer them some of the wisdom that comes with age and experience – and, of course, they also benefit from some learning with the horses!

Professor Ferdinand – thanks for keeping up this excellent work!