As parents of an International Summer School of Scotland (ISSOS) alumnus, we get regular updates by newsletter.

For one, they launched a new ISSOS website. Students can now access full information about The International Summer School of Scotland programs in St Andrews and Cambridge with ease and with interest.
The new website details all you need to know about their prestigious locations, the diverse range of classes available, group cultural trips, ISSOS workshops and much, much more.

Availability Update – ISSOS 2011 (posted 30 March, 2011)

St Andrews Session 1

**Please note that we are now full for GOLF in St Andrews Session 1

**We are now full for IB Extended Essay in St Andrews Session 1

**We are full for German students in St Andrews Sessions 1 & 2

**There are only 2 spaces left for French students in St Andrews Session 1

**There are only 3 spaces left for Italian students St Andrews Session 1

**1 place left for PRE IB in St Andrews Session 1

**1 place left for FILM in St Andrews Session 1

Cambridge 2011

**1 place left for a German student

**2 places left for Photography

2011 Session dates:

St Andrews

Session 1:    July 3rd – July 24th
Session 2:    July 27th – August 17th

Cambridge

Session 1:   July 20th – August 10th

To apply, visit ISSOS apply.

Son Thomas spent three weeks visiting ISSOS summer program for St Andrews last year. He attended Debate and joined the Golf sessions. Next to learning quite a bit, he also found it very enjoyable. Definitely recommendable.

Our 10th grade son will be leaving for a three-week summer course at St. Andrews University next week. We are doing our last bit of shopping from a seemingly never-ending list of things he needed. As he had signed up for the courses debate and golfing, we realized he needed a dinner jacket, dress shirts, pants (other than jeans), ties, a laptop (all for debate) as well as golfing shoes and chinos for the latter one.

Well, he needed clothing anyway and we hope to send him off in two years’ time (class of 2012) to embark on his career to become a future man of business. I will see this extra expense as an investment. Not to mention the tuition fee and flight expense. Should I include the new glasses he had to get and his allowance while being there? I think, not.

His choice of debate and golfing as subjects has left him with remarks from friends such as  Thinking about becoming a lawyer? His classes do sound like the prerequisite for law.

Nevertheless, St. Andrews would probably be only a little university town without its much acclaimed golfing capital. For more about St. Andrews and its (golf) history, read The New York Times recent article Storied Past Lives On at St. Andrews.

Visit The International Summer School of Scotland St. Andrews for more information about its summer programmes.

And yes, I plan on reporting about his educational experience.