Caroline is the fifth student to gain a bursary from BDO

Thursday 14th July 2011, 2:30PM BST.

Recruitment director Richard Jackson with people who have benefited from the BDO bursary scheme. From the left: Laura Bridel, Caroline Allen, Aaron Ockleford and Sam Gervaise-Brazier. Laura and Aaron are now full-time employees while Sam has just finished her first year at university. 1156013

ACCOUNTANCY firm BDO is celebrating five years of running its successful bursary scheme for local students.

Each year the firm has selected a student to be given financial support while at university plus paid work experience during holidays and throughout their gap year.

After gaining their degrees all of them are guaranteed three years’ employment while they study for their professional accountancy qualifications.

The latest bursary student to begin working at BDO is 19-year-old Caroline Allen, who will embark later this year on a degree in accounting and finance at Oxford Brookes University.