Lord Laidlaw’s Lake Kivu project is transforming risk into reward by extracting renewable energy to power more than 50,000 homes in Rwanda. April 7th, 2021 | Photo credit: Timbuktu Travel Situated between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo [...]
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, MBA applications have been reaching record numbers. Nevertheless, the gender gap remains. The Financial Times' business education correspondent Jonathan Moules investigated why fewer women are applying to business schools. The Laidlaw Foundation's £3.7m gift to [...]
We are delighted to share that newly appointed Chief Executive Officer, Ian Simpson, will be joining the Laidlaw Schools Trust family in April 2021. Currently Executive Principal at Oasis Academy Isle of Sheppey, Ian is an experienced school leader [...]
As of January 2021, Lord Laidlaw has planted 17,000 spekboom succulents, with another 25,000 to be installed over the South African winter, making his plantation among the largest in the Western Cape. January 16, 2021 At the beginning of 2020, [...]
This article was published on 21.12.2020 Lord Laidlaw (Highland Fling/Oui Fling) has been awarded the coveted ‘YCM Sailor of the Year’ 2020 by the Monaco Yacht Club, after being nominated three years in a row since 2017, for the sum [...]
Original article by Natalie Saunders for the Northern Echo on 18/12/2020. STUDENTS have been hard at work burying a time capsule to mark the construction of a new teaching centre at their college. Robertson Construction has commenced work at [...]
OCTOBER 28, 2020 IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Laidlaw Foundation is partnering with Cornell University to offer 25 exceptional students annually an Undergraduate Research and Leadership Scholarship designed to develop a new generation of leaders who believe in evidence-based truths and [...]
Original article published by LBS on October 16, 2020. As part of the welcome programme for its record number of nearly 300 scholarship recipients for this academic year, London Business School (LBS) last week hosted the official launch of the Laidlaw Women’s [...]
The Foundation is delighted to announce that the Laidlaw Women in Business Scholarships are open for applications at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School. October 9, 2020 New for the 2021 MBA class, the Laidlaw Scholarships are intended [...]
Despite facing extreme educational challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic this year, our pupils at Laidlaw Schools Trust academies have demonstrated remarkable resilience and diligence, achieving excellent A-Level and GCSE results. August 28, 2020 We are incredibly grateful to [...]