A STEVENSTON student who has risen through the ranks of student politics at City of Glasgow College was delighted to be among an official student welcoming party that greeted HRH Countess of Wessex during her visit to open City of Glasgow College’s state of the art City Campus recently.

Jack McCallister, 19, said it was an honour to represent the college’s Students’ Association and chat to Her Royal Highness about how much students enjoy the personalised teaching employed throughout the stunning new campus.

Since joining the College, Jack has held a range of different positions within the Students’ Association, gradually rising from class representative to Vice-President of Learning and Teaching, the role he currently holds.

The HND social sciences student has high hopes for his future and believes that his time spent as a student at City of Glasgow College will prepare him well for a career in policing. Jack hopes to take his education in sociology, economics, and research methods that he has gained while at the college and apply it to keeping the streets of Scotland safer; an ambition he was also keen to tell Her Royal Highness about when he met her.

Jack, who commutes from his Ayrshire home said: “I was pleased to be chosen to meet the Countess. She seemed really interested in the college, its new campus and our student body.”