Canada joins participants in internship programme

0 From left, Matthew Leith, Euan Donnelly and Charlotte Laing are to do transatlantic placements Entrepreneurial Scotland said its Saltire Scholar Internship Programme has placed a group of students with host companies in Canada for the first time thanks to a new visa partnership.

The scheme aims to provide students with once-in-a-lifetime internships across the world, fully funded through supporters and donors of the Saltire Foundation charity, the philanthropic arm of Entrepreneurial Scotland.

The group comprises engineering students Matthew Leith of Heriot-watt University, James Adam of the University of Dundee, and Euan Donnelly of Edinburgh Napier University as well as Charlotte Laing, a business management and digital media student at the University of Glasgow.

The Canadian host companies include toy manufacturer Mega Brands, TV company Boat Rocker Media, and The University of Alberta, while this year marks the scheme’s tenth cohort, with 165 participants, up from 142 in 2016.