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Last month, West Colleges Scotland’s Motor Vehicle department at the Clydebank campus were delighted to donate £417.20 to the St Margaret of Scotland Hospice.

As part of the Renfrewshire Council STEM initiative, we welcomed 15 pupils from Johnstone High School for a full-day App development workshop. The students really enjoyed it and hopefully some of them will consider a career in programming, a skill which is in high demand in Scotland right now.

A group of 20 Design and Media students will be the first to take advantage of the community benefits programme which forms a key part of the new £22m Clydebank Leisure Centre.

A West College Scotland student is raising the bar for Sport in Inverclyde after qualifying for the Great Britain Powerlifting Federation Junior Championships.

THIS month West College Scotland becomes the first College in the UK, and possibly the world, to be chosen by Microsoft as Showcase School. This is just the latest step in West College Scotland’s development as a leader of technology and innovation in education.

CRAIG FORREST graduated from our Clydebank Campus in 2008 with a HND in Make-Up Artistry. Since then Craig has worked on a string of high profile productions, and recently won ‘Outstanding Achievement in Wigs & Make-Up’ at the UK Technical Theatre Awards, for his work on Shrek the Musical.

The Review looks at the many achievements of staff and students throughout the past 12 months and outlines the educational, social and economic contribution the College makes to the communities of the West of Scotland.

HND Creative Industries students at our Clydebank campus are working with West Dunbartonshire Council to record interviews with the people of the area to create an archive that will tell the story of its people, in their own words.

Five West College Scotland Make-up Artists were ‘made-up’ to assist the Team Scotland prepare for the United Kingdom’s most coveted beauty pageant, Miss European.

For the first time, West College Scotland (Clydebank Campus) is offering a Fast Track National Certificate Programme in Travel and Tourism starting in October.