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Education
Estates are multi-functional businesses which are able to offer an unrivalled variety of opportunities for study by teachers and students alike. From geography, wildlife care and the environment to history, economics and business studies, the countryside offers a wonderful diversity of opportunity to learn from hands-on experience and understanding. Many estates now have established links, through their local education authorities or the Royal Highland Educational Trust, with local schools and colleges offering field study visits to estates as part of their curriculum studies.
- Atholl Estates offers a teacher training day out each year for local educational establishments.
- Buccleuch Estates holds a Schools Day each May, to which around 2,000 local schoolchildren are invited.
- Dalkeith Country Park hosts 180 school visits and 60 organised events each year
- In Inveraray, the Argyll Estate gives free access to Inveraray Castle to pupils from all of Mid Argyll's schools.
- Lothian Estate has supported the setting up of an internationally renowned Wood School, which promotes Scottish timber.
- Abercorn Estates provides office space & access to the estate's facilities for the Pushkin Prize - a creative writing and environmental charity.
