Features

Tips for living and working in Scotland

Many people have been drawn to Scotland by the career opportunities, but also by the appeal of enhancing their quality of life. Find out more about how to make the leap.

Do you Dare to be Digital?

Dare to be Digital is a Scottish video games development competition open to universities and colleges around the world.

A Scotland for everyone

TalentScotland are helping to find the right location for people wanting to study or live in Scotland.

Environmental miracles in Yunnan

A partnership between Scotland and China is protecting plants in a threatened province.

Building the ships of tomorrow

Scotland built the largest passenger liner in 1938 but is still making shipping news with the HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, being built in Scotland.

Space Age Scotland

Scottish innovators are now driving advances in a frontier where few have gone before – outer space.

Life Science Scotland Signals the Way Ahead

Sir Philip Cohen is a patient man. Since the early 1970s he has dedicated himself to understanding one of the bodys principal control mechanisms and how it becomes deregulated in human disease.

Drug discovery and development

Penicillin, beta-blockers, interferon, anti-ulcer drugs, anti-asthma treatments and a whole host of other medical innovations owe their development wholly, or in part, to the work pioneered in Scotland.

The development of ultrasound

Now a standard feature on hospital wards, ultrasound was developed over fifty years ago by a team of researchers in Glasgow.

Tropical Medicine: the Hot Scots

Millions worldwide benefit from Scottish scientific research.