UHI NWH Kilchoan

Start your learning journey this January – Where Learning Means More! 💡

With over 100 courses starting in January 2025 across the North and West Highlands, Skye, and Outer Hebrides, there’s something for everyone.

🎓 School leaver? Take the next step
💼 Returning to work? Gain new skills and boost your career.
📚 Seeking career advancement? Explore our flexible range of upskilling CPD courses.

Find the perfect course for you and make 2025 your year of possibilities!

➕ Find out more: https://www.nwh.uhi.ac.uk/en/study/january-starts/
➕ Get in touch email/phone: [email protected] 01847 889 000

We are hiring! Join our team at UHI North, West and Hebrides 📚

➕ UHI STEM Co-ordinator (Outreach) - Lochaber & Skye

Find out more and apply: https://www.nwh.uhi.ac.uk/en/staff/vacancies/uhi-stem-co-ordinator-outreach---lochaber--skye.html

Bursary available for people living in remote areas and studying a UHI course. Worth looking at if this applies to you.

Calling all students who live in a rural or island location! The Rural and Islands Bursary Fund offers students the opportunity to apply for up to £1,000 to support their studies. The deadline to apply is Thursday 31 October 2024: bit.ly/3Xwr4L6

Students can apply for this bursary to help them in activities they otherwise be unable to participate in:

➕ Travel to attend conferences
➕ Work placements or field studies
➕ Equipment, books or other study materials
➕ Support for unexpected financial circumstances which might affect a student’s ability to focus and achieve their potential

Thanks to the generosity of the Witherby Publishing Group Charitable Trust, this fund will support at least 10 students from rural and isolated communities in the .

Things are starting to get going in Kilchoan once again and I may be there several times over the next month or so as the Engagement Officer (Interim) for the UHI Learning Centres in Strontian and Kilchoan. If anyone wants to drop in for a chat about what the UHI North, West and Hebrides can be doing in your area, please message me or email (see below) so I can let you know when I will be available.

It would be great if I could also get the message around the north part of Mull so people over there can have access too. If anyone has any contacts of groups or organisations on Mull / in Tobermory or knows any Facebook groups on the island for promoting events, please do ask them to email me on [email protected] so I can keep them informed too.

There are a wide range of study modes available when you choose to study with the UHI NWH.

➕Our door is always open- Study with us:

➕ On campus, face to face
➕ Online virtual classroom
➕ Online self-directed
➕ Work based
➕ Blended, on campus and online

Our 19 campuses and centres provide a friendly, supportive space to study, socialise and access support.

Whether you’re just beginning your career journey or looking to upskill, reskill or change careers entirely, we’ve a full range of further education and higher education programmes to choose from – ranging from access level to PhD, including leisure and short courses. Our courses suit more people, at more levels, for more reasons, with options for learning, life, and work.

Find our more: https://www.nwh.uhi.ac.uk/en/study/doors-open/

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REHIS ELEMENTARY FOOD HYGIENE

For anyone who has spoken to me about a food hygiene course recently, please use the link below to sign up for the online course. Six hours home study with an in-person assessment at the Strontian Learning Centre (Sunart Centre) on one of the following dates:

• Monday 15th April 10.30-11.30
• Monday 13th May 10.30-11.30
• Monday 10th June 10.30-11.30

The assessment is a 30 minute catchup with your tutor followed by a 30 minute written assessment invigilated by your centre administrator.

Elementary Food Hygiene E-learning A self-paced e-learning course covering the basics of safe handling and storage of food.

If anyone needs REHIS Personal License Holder certification, then there is a course running at UHI NWH Fort William on the 27th March.

There have not been enough requests to be able to host one on the peninsulas, but perhaps before the tourist season starts in 2025 there may be...

Book onto the course below.

REHIS Scottish Certificate for Personal Licence Holders - Fort William This is 1-day course is a mandatory qualification for people applying to become a Scottish Personal Licence Holder.

TUTORS NEEDED LOCALLY

We are currently looking for enthusiastic local people to lead short-courses (c. 4 x 1 hr sessions) in something practical and that you are passionate about and think other locals would also enjoy.

These will either be part of a series of 'basics' or 'I can...' offerings with the intention of interesting and upskilling people, having some fun and learning the basics of a new skill in a relaxed and social group setting.

Could you offer any of the following at a basic level?

➕ Arts or crafts (e.g. 'I can draw/paint/write/sew')
➕ Bicycle maintenance
➕ Card games (e.g. bridge, whist, etc.)
➕ Fitness and health (e.g. yoga, Pilates, meditation, etc.)
➕ Languages (Gaelic, Polish, German, Spanish, etc.)
➕ Photography (landscapes, portraits, wildlife)
➕ Poly tunnel building and growing
➕ Wildlife (land, river and sea)

Over to you - what skills do you have that might interest others?

I'm in post and slowly working out what courses people wish to have hosted on the peninsulas (Kilchoan or Strontian).

If you are an individual or a business and wish to chat about how UHI NWH can support you or your staff team, please get in touch with me.

Centre administrator appointed for centres on Ardnamurchan peninsula Karl Bungey has been appointed Centre Administrator for UHI North, West and Hebrides’ Strontian and Kilchoan centres.

The first draft posters for (provisional) courses are looking good (on paper at least).

Chainsaw courses hopefully coming soon along with Gaelic, higher level Food Hygiene and lots more...

Courses need a minimum number to make them viable to run, so please let us know what you'd like to see and how many people you know that would attend.

SUNART LEARNING CENTRE COURSES

These are the first draft posters for the first six leisure and business courses that we intend to run at the UHI NWH Strontian Learning Centre in the very near future.

Full details will be made available once they are confirmed.

Will you be signing up for any of them?

What other courses would you like to see? (Chainsaw is proving an issue just now, but we hope it will become the seventh course).

Do let us know by message or email.