Understanding and tackling hate crime

Our first podcast of 2019/20 deals with an important issue: hate crime. Sara Turkington, our Equality and Inclusion Advisor, and Elizabeth Burnet, our Campus Liaison Officer, got together during Hate Crime Awareness Week to record a special podcast episode about the subject. Here they talk about the definition of hate crime and what to do …

Travel and Tourism students go Viva Espana

As part of our ‘H.E.A.T up your Future’ blog series, we invited Claire Todd, our Marketing Intern, to interview HND Travel and Tourism students who organised a Spanish themed event called ‘Viva Espana’ at our training restaurant Westerly in the College’s Ayr Campus. Claire spoke to Travel and Tourism student, Scott Todd, who tells us …

“Engineering is about working with what you have…”

I was attracted to engineering at primary school always choosing to play with K’nex and Lego modelling kits. In secondary school I enjoyed making things in the technical department. At college I did NC, HNC and HND Mechanical Engineering. My learning experience was wonderful. I learned so much about myself and what I could do. I am …

Follow your passion for food and drink with a Hospitality Career

Being in the restaurant kitchens and Front-of-House is fast-paced, exciting and creative. But did you know that as well as these careers in Hospitality, there are so many ways that you can follow your passion for food and drink? As part of our ‘H.E.A.T up your Future’ blog series, we invited Claire Todd, our Marketing …

Smile…and start a career in Dental Nursing!

Andrea Livingstone left school at 16 and started a Youth Training Scheme at a dental practice in Irvine. She is now a Dental Nurse Assessor with NHS Ayrshire & Arran, and would highly recommend a career in Dental Nursing. Interested? We still have limited places on our brand new NC Oral Health Care (Dental Nursing): …