海角直播

A Shanghai Summer for Marketing student

University of 海角直播 BA (Honours) Marketing student Hamish Newhouse spends his summers in diverse locations. He has recently completed a two-month placement in Shanghai, China, working for a property company. Hamish鈥檚 Shanghai summer is a sharp contrast to last year, when he worked on a conservation project in Belize, helping to build a warden鈥檚 coastal out-post.

Hamish, 22, from Richmond, North Yorkshire, learned about the Shanghai placement when he visited his sister Emma, who is studying Physiology in Edinburgh. Hamish visited a careers fayre and saw details of the 鈥楾eaching Project鈥檚 abroad鈥� programme, which offered the self-funded Chinese placement. Stockton-born Hamish said: 鈥淚t was great to experience a totally different working culture and my first time over there. China was really cool, and it was nice to put into practice what I鈥檝e learned. The Ru An Property Company sells space for multi-national retail organisations, and I worked in a range of departments, including Human Resources and marketing, so I got a feeling of what it was like to work for a Chinese company. I鈥檒l be using this experience towards my final-year dissertation when I return to the University in the autumn.鈥�

In summer 2001 Hamish worked on a conservation project in the coastal area of Caulker, Belize. This project was also self-funded, and Hamish was part of a team who constructed the warden鈥檚 building from wood.

Hamish added: 鈥淚t was such an awesome experience, I got such a sense of achievement. Sleeping in a hammock was brilliant, although we had to pack up quickly when hurricane Chantel hit Belize. The hurricane passed over during the night, but amazingly our structure wasn鈥檛 harmed in any way. We also did some jungle training, which was like an episode of survivor, lying in your hammock seeing Jaguars passing by and scorpions moving about below.鈥�

Prior to enrolling at the University, Hamish was a pupil at St. David鈥檚 College in Wales, where he achieved 鈥楢鈥� levels in Business Studies, Technology and Art & Design. Hamish was diagnosed as dyslexic at the age of 12 and St. David鈥檚, an independent school, provided one-to-one tuition to assist Hamish鈥檚 learning.

鈥淭he University has good support for dyslexic students, for example I鈥檓 allocated extra time for exams. I鈥檝e really enjoyed the Marketing degree so far, the Lecturers are amazing and supportive鈥�, said Hamish, who is the son of Fiona and Richard Newhouse.

For more information on the BA (Honours) degree in Marketing please call 01642 342807 or check the University of 海角直播鈥檚 web site at www.tees.ac.uk

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