Educational Institutions News
7/6/2015
Move On With Summer Employability Programme At North Highland College
The North Highland College UHI summer employability programme was run last year for the first time and proved very successful, with every candidate finding a positive destination, either in an apprenticeship, employment or education. This year the programme will also include construction skills as well as engineering.
2/6/2015
Council appoints Head Teacher for Keiss primary
The new Head Teacher of Keiss Primary School in Caithness is Kathryn Laidlaw. She takes up her post in August 2015.15/5/2015
House of Morven 21st birthday party
After almost 21 years of training chefs, beauticians and hairdressers, the North Highland College UHI's House of Morven would like to invite past students, employers, staff and graduates back for a 21st birthday party on Monday 1st June. The House of Morven originally opened its doors on 6th June 1994 and has since seen thousands of students begin their careers within the service industries with them.
31/3/2015
Beauty students attend UK's leading beauty event in London
Beauty Therapy students from the North Highland College UHI have recently returned from a trip to the Professional Beauty Exhibition at the ExCel in London. With more than 800 brands, including Clarins, 3D Lipo, CACI, Dermalogica, CND and OPI the exhibition houses all the different aspects of the beauty industry.
24/3/2015
Partnership agreement between North Highland College and Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd
A NEW partnership agreement has been signed to develop and deliver training required at the Dounreay site during decommissioning work and help staff gain the qualifications they need to transfer to other employment sectors as the site closure progresses. Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL), responsible for the clean-up and demolition of Britain's former centre of fast reactor research and development, has established a memorandum of understanding with North Highland College UHI and the University of the Highlands and Islands to help close collaboration working and academic links across further and higher education and the nuclear industry.
14/3/2015
College scoops overall winner at LANTRA awards
Students and staff at the North Highland College UHI are delighted after attending the annual LANTRA awards ceremony last week in the Dunblane Hydro Hotel. Gamekeeping modern apprentice Callum Low and NC Gamekeeping with Wildlife Management student Mary Bowman both were both nominated for Game and Wildlife Learner of the Year award.
28/10/2014
Thurso chef crowned Young Highland Chef of the Year
A chef from Thurso has been named as the Young Highland Chef of 2014. 23 year old Robert Smith beat off competition from six other finalists to win the title at last night's cook-off, held at the Burghfield House Hotel in Dornoch.
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28/10/2014Keeping employee training at the forefront ensures things DON'T go with a BANG!!!
November, a month where it's commonplace to hear the cracks, whistles and bangs of fireworks. Great fun at the time, but a Health & Safety nightmare! For businesses such noises, at any time of year, can herald major problems, so it is vital to ensure your employees are fully up-to-date with their training.6/10/2014
NHC Students win national apprentice awards
Two local apprentices and students of the North Highland College UHI have won awards at the National Scottish Electrical Charitable Training Trust (SECTT) competition. Graeme Robert Gray (22) and Murray Mackintosh (20) broke records earlier this year when they won both the first and second stage categories for the North of Scotland - the first time in the history of the competition that a single college has won both awards.
17/9/2014
Invitation to Tender for Framework Contractors
North Highland College UHI wish to invite tenders from suitably qualified contractors to be placed on a preferred contractor's framework for planned and reactive maintenance at their sites in Caithness, Sutherland and Ross-shire. The College will require separate trade tenders for each of the trades listed below and suppliers can tender for more than one trade - but separately - if they have the requisite skills.22/8/2014
Summer Engineering Programme Prepares Young Adults
Last week, fourteen North Highland College UHI students celebrated the completion of a new six week summer programme aimed to help young people into employment, by providing essential training to progress into sustained employment within the Engineering Sector. From July to August the students have developed engineering employability skills, industry standard training and gained a suite of statutory certificates.
15/7/2014
New £48.5 million school campus for Wick
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon today broke the ground on the new £48.5 million Wick Community Campus. The facility, which will replace Wick High School, Pulteneytown Academy Primary School, and South Primary School, is part of Scotland's Schools for the Future programme and will receive more than £17 million from the Scottish Government.
11/7/2014
Thurso college facility to host high level apprentice engineer pilot
Engineering students at North Highland College will get the chance to get hands on work experience as part of a new course based in Thurso. The move follows a recommendation by the Commission for Developing Scotland's Young Workforce to increase the number of higher level apprenticeship opportunities and to ensure those undertaking high level qualifications receive enhanced levels of work experience.20/6/2014
Free business seminar - brewing on the edge
The University of the Highlands and Islands Management School will be broadcasting a free seminar from the island of Unst in Shetland on Tuesday 1 July. Key account director, Gary I Campbell, will interview Sonny Priest, the founder of Valhalla Brewery, Scotland's most northerly brewery.
17/6/2014
NEW UHI Principal Meets Staff and Students At North Highland College
University of the Highlands and Islands principal and vice-chancellor meets staff and students at North Highland College UHI. Professor Clive Mulholland met with staff and students last week at North Highland College UHI just 12 days after taking up his post as the second principal and vice-chancellor of the University of the Highlands and Islands.
12/6/2014
DOUBLE-WHAMMY WIN FOR CAITHNESS APPRENTICES
Two local apprentices who are students of the North Highland College UHI have won both 1st and 2nd Year Apprentice of the Year awards for the North of Scotland. This is the first time in the history of the Scottish Electrical Charitable Training Trust (SECTT) competition that a single college has won both of these categories.
6/6/2014
Delegates To Innovation Conference Visit Gills Harbour
GILLS BAY/PENTLAND FIRTH'S INNER SOUND VISIT BY DELEGATES TO TOP-LEVEL INNOVATION CONFERENCE HOSTED BY THURSO'S ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, PART OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS. A top team of Scottish-based scientists, engineers and academics sailed out to the Pentland Firth's Inner Sound from Gills Bay on a fact-finding mission to see at first hand the fast-flowing waters above the seabed site of the UK's first planned 'marine electricity' power-station.
6/6/2014
North Highland College Summer Programme ‘Engineering Employability Essentials'
North Highland College is running a summer programme that will be of interest to any young people thinking about a career in engineering with a modern apprenticeship in mind. It aims to help young people into employment by providing essential training that will give candidates the knowledge, skills and certification to progress into sustained employment within the Engineering Sector.
5/6/2014
College Weld Challenge Puts Trainees to the Test
Eleven trainee welders from North Highland College UHI and Inverness College UHI went head to head in a college weld challenge last week, with the first heat based at Inverness Longman campus, and the second at North Highland's state-of-the-art engineering, technology and energy centre. The students were selected from the 72 full time and apprentice welders currently training at the two colleges.
29/5/2014
