Glasgow has some trees that are older than the dinosaurs! Well, to be strictly accurate, they are fossilised trees. Fossilised simply means that they have become fossils and a fossil is the remains or impression of a prehistoric plant or animal embedded in rock and preserved in petrified form.

Our fossilised trees are in Victoria Park. They are around 330 million years old. At that time, Glasgow’s climate was warm and humid.

The Hunterian Museum in Glasgow is Scotland’s oldest public museum.   It is in the University of Glasgow and was built in 1807. The museum has a large collection of art and scientific relics including the world’s first-ever ultra sound machine. We often organise trips to see this museum, so if you come to study with us here at Glasgow School of English then you’ll be able to see all its exhibits for yourself.

Following our recent establishment of a sister school arrangement for France, Glasgow School of English and Global School of English Edinburgh are pleased to announce we have now established another bilateral agreement, with Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Russia to work together to give students and staff of the Faculty the opportunity of studying English in Scotland.

The Scottish schools are offering a sister school relationship to be developed with the Faculty. Our new sister school arrangement will provide the following to each of the institutions:

• The Faculty will send to Glasgow /Edinburgh a group of students each year.
• The Scottish schools will provide a prize each year to be offered to senior students of the Faculty.
• The prize will be a two-week course of English, including accommodation, transfers, teaching materials and sight seeing.
• The Faculty will provide an award ceremony each year where the prize(s) will be awarded to its students by a Scottish school representative.
• The Faculty will provide opportunities to promote the Scottish schools and what they offer, to students and staff of the Faculty..
• As the relationship matures, teacher exchange will be considered and developed for the mutual benefit of both parties to the agreement.

Andrew Lennox, President of the Scottish Schools stated “ I have for many years tried to establish this type of arrangement with overseas schools and I am delighted that Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Faculty of Foreign Languages, has recognised the mutual benefits of such a cooperation.  We look forward to welcoming their students.”

 

We are delighted to announce that Glasgow School of English and Global School of English Edinburgh have established a Bilateral Agreement with Ecole Diagonale School in Paris to work together to give students and staff of the French school the opportunity of studying English in Scotland.  Pictured above are Filip Zafirovski from Ecole Diagonale and Andrew Lennox, President of Glasgow and Global Schools.

The Scottish schools are offering a sister school relationship to be developed with Ecole Diagonale.

The sister school arrangement will provide the following to each of the institutions:

Ecole Diagonale will send to Glasgow /Edinburgh a group of students each year.

The Scottish schools will provide a prize each year to be offered to senior students of Ecole Diagonale.

The prize will be a two week course of English including accommodation, transfers, teaching materials and sightseeing.

Ecole Diagonale will provide an award ceremony each year where the prize(s) will be awarded to its students by a Scottish schools representative.

Ecole Diagonale will provide opportunities to promote the Scottish schools and what they offer, to students and staff of the French school.

As the relationship matures, teacher exchange will be considered and developed for mutual benefit to both parties of the agreement.

Andrew Lennox, President of the Scottish Schools stated “ I have for many years tried to establish this type of arrangement with overseas schools and I am delighted that Ecole Diagonale has recognised the mutual benefits of such a co-operation”