Email: Swap.East@ed.ac.uk
Tel: 0131 650 6861 or 0131 650 6685

The SWAP East team

Lesley Dunbar: Director
Nick Hutcheon: Coordinator
Rhiannon Carter: Administrator

Office hours: Monday-Friday, 09:00-17:00

Click below to hear about the experiences of five former SWAP East students.
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Preparation for Higher Education (Prep for HE) is a fundamental part of what you do as a SWAP student. It is intended to support you in the development of knowledge and skills that will help you as a student in higher education.

For that purpose. we advise you to use the SWAP East Prep for HE materials linked below:

In addition, Prep for HE includes other activities, such as attending SWAP Study Skills events and university open days, engaging with Peer Support Volunteers and doing the Prep for HE work assigned by your college.

SWAP/Open University Prep for HE.

PAULINA KAMENSKA
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I came to Scotland in 2010 as a 20-year-old, straight after high school, barely passing my final exams and having very...
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AUDREY FIELD
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Going to university straight from school wasn’t really an option for me, I started a full-time job and enjoyed...
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GRAEME GENTLES
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I left school just before I was 16 with no qualifications and went on to a further education college in Perth to...
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JENNY MONTGOMERY
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Higher education was never going to be on the cards for me as quite an unruly teenager. I was going to get a job...
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Abertay
Aberdeen 
Dundee
Edinburgh
Edinburgh Napier
Scotland’s Rural University College (SRUC)
Robert Gordon
Stirling

Highlands and Islands (UHI)
St Andrews
Queen Margaret
Heriot-Watt
The Scotland College of Chiropractic 

All of our partner universities  consider applications from SWAP students.

Use the progression route finder below to look up degree programmes available to SWAP East students and check out which access programme is the most suitable for your degree choice.

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