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West College Scotland Offers CNC Machining and Programming Training to Local SME’s

West College Scotland’s ‘Critical Engineer’ programme aims to prepare local SMEs to thrive in a Manufacturing 4.0 environment, through driving innovation, stimulating collaboration and boosting productivity and, to support this, we are offering FREE training in CNC Machining and Programming.

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#LoveScotlandsColleges is back!

#LoveScotlandsColleges is back and West College Scotland can’t wait to support the national campaign to celebrate the vital role played by further education in Scotland.

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Travel and Tourism Students Earn Their Wings

Students from the College’s Clydebank campus Travel, Tour Guiding and Airport Operations course celebrated the completion of their Cabin Crew unit with an awards ceremony on Thursday 2 December.

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West College Scotland Scoops Prestigious Judge’s Award at sector College Development Awards

West College Scotland (WCS) won two awards and received three Highly Commended, and one Commended commendations at last night’s (Thursday 11th December) annual CDN College Awards held at the Glasgow Radisson Blu hotel.

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Helping Those in Need this Christmas

Staff and students from across the College donate toys and gifts to their local Women’s Aid centres. Christmas for so many of us, is a time for making memories with friends and family and exchanging present with loved ones. Sadly, this isn’t the case for everyone. Hundreds of people rely on the kindness of others and we at West College Scotland wanted to do our bit to help those less fortunate across our local communities.

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WCS Secures Additional Digital Funding

West College Scotland is delighted to receive additional funding from The Connecting Scotland initiative to support some of our most vulnerable students to work and learn online. The initiative aims to help 60,000 digitally excluded households online by the end of 2022.

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New Employment Courses launched in Renfrewshire!

West College Scotland is delighted to announce that it has received funding from the Renfrewshire Local Employability Partnership, to deliver training and qualifications via the Employability Grant Programme.

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Lewis goes from WCS Science Department to Switzerland!

HNC Applied Science graduate Lewis Kennedy is about to embark on an exciting 12 month project based at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland.

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College becomes CSWTO Approved Centre

West College Scotland are delighted to have gained official TWI accreditation as a certified welding centre for both our Clydebank and Greenock facilities.

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Paisley Sport Students partner with local mental health charity, RAMH

With an ever-increasing focus on mental health and wellbeing within our society, Sports Lecturer, Linda Boal felt it would be a mutually beneficial and engaging real life learning experience for our students to work with individuals who suffer with their mental health, with the goal of also removing some of the stigmas attached with this subject.

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Time to Talk Day Hailed a Success

‘A small conversation about mental health has the power to make a big difference.’

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West College Scotland Launches West Care Academy

West College Scotland is delighted to have received funding from the UK Government through the Community Renewal Fund, to establish ‘West Care Academy’, where we will offer a suite of training throughout West Dunbartonshire and Inverclyde.

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Photography Students Snap Up the Chance for Work Experience

HND Photography students from the Colleges Paisley campus were thrilled to be amongst photographers capturing the Dynamic New Athletes (DNA) event at the Emirates Arena earlier this month.

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Hospitality Students Get a Flavour for Working in Industry

Hospitality students help feed thousands of hungry rugby fans at the Scotland versus England match at Murrayfield earlier this month.

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We’re celebrating SCOTTISH APPRENTICESHIP WEEK!

This week the College will be celebrating the diversity that that makes work-based learning good for individuals, employers and the economy. Developed as an initiative by Skills Development Scotland, this week of celebration will be underpinned by the theme of ‘Apprenticeships Work’.

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Congratulations to our new cohort of Microsoft Innovative Educators!

Dedicated to continuing our Microsoft Showcase School status, 33 of our WCS staff members recently completed their two-hour training sessions to become Microsoft Innovative Educators.

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Our Future Makeup Artists get an insight to industry with Harrods Beauty

Our talented HNC Fashion Make up Students were invited along to a bespoke Beauty Event at Scotland’s first ever Harrods Beauty store located in Edinburgh’s newest luxury shopping centre, St James Quarter.

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Funding to Train New Energy Efficiency, Automotive and Wind Professionals

Supported by the Scottish Funding Council and the Scottish Government Energy Efficiency training funding is now available through the National Transition Training Fund for people resident in Scotland that have lost their jobs, are at risk of redundancy or those that have identified a skills gap in their current job.

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Tom returns to WCS to share his apprenticeship journey

A former Foundation Apprentice is going full circle in apprenticeship journey by returning to the College to share his experiences with our current cohort of Engineering students. T

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College Nurseries to Close

West College Scotland’s nurseries, situated at our Paisley and Greenock campuses, are to cease operating on the 17th of June.

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