As a member of the ICLT Strategic Team a fact finding visit is arranged to Aberdeen College to see what they are doing with ICLT, it will give us a chance to ask questions about their outsourced ICT service to Research Machines.
On Saturday I attended Edinburgh’s Telford College Graduation held at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh.
This year marked a significant milestone in the life at Edinburgh’s Telford College in that it is 40 years since the College as we know it today was created.
It was great to celebrate the success, dedication and achievments of Design, Media and Computing students.
Garry Fraser - HND Creative Industries: Television (Design, Media and Computing) was presented the Lloyds TSB award - Special Recoginition.
Garry’s story……….
When Garry started at Telford doing his NC he was a recovering heroin user and in that first year went through serious withdrawal symptoms. He is now off hard drugs.He didn’t go to secondary school at all and grew up without parents. He also got into some ‘bother’ when he was growing up.His tutor took him onto the HND Television course, despite many reservations regarding his lack of educational qualifications, due to his persistence and enthusiasm. These qualities saw him through the first year where he often felt totally out of place and overwhelmed by the requirements of the course. Added to this were the difficulties he encountered due to severe dyslexia.He subsequently proved himself to be one of the most proactive and productive students in the class, with boundless energy and commitment to his chosen discipline. With a wealth of experiences to draw upon, he moulds these into numerous compulsive and moving drama scripts.While his classmates were initially reluctant to trust him with key roles on their projects, the general comments from them about his performance in directing his final project were: “it’s like there’s a real director on the set,”—something that they hadn’t said about any of their other colleagues.
His final video project was a cautionary and moving drama about the dangers of prescription Methadone as well as warning of the unintentional hazards associated with its use. It told of the overdose and death of an ex-prisoner less than 24 hours after his release.
During the Edinburgh International Film Festival this year Garry gave a copy of his showreel to the film director Shane Meadows, winner of this year’s BAFTA for the Best British Film. At the premiere of Shane’s new movie, he took time out to mention Garry and enthused about his video.
Garry has since sold his video to Saughton Prison who are to use it in their induction programme for new prisoners.
As if all this wasn’t enough, he has managed all of this while being a husband and father to two young children in the most difficult of financial circumstances.
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