UHI Argyll Update
Argyll and Bute Council · 14 May 2025
Back to Oban Lorn & the Isles Area Community Planning Group — 14 May 2025 and its agenda
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Principal and Chief Executive: Martin Jones www.argyll.uhi.ac.uk UHI Argyll is a trading name of Argyll College Ltd a charity registered in Scotland No SC026685 Registered address: West Bay, Dunoon, PA23 7HP UHI Argyll – Oban, Lorn and the Isles Area Community Planning Group Meeting 14/5/2025 Open weeks We held an open week during w/c 24th March. This included taster/information sessions for the following: • Business Courses Information Session • Hair Salon Open Day (Dunoon only) • How to Combine Plants in your Garden • Access to College Information Session • Early Years Education: Playful Practice • Sowing Seeds and Planning Sustainable Vegetable Gardens • Health & Social Care Information Session • Maritime Chartwork Taster Session (Dunoon) • Beauty Taster Session (Oban only) Most sessions were networked and attendees could access them remotely or attend at their local centre. Some practical sessions were held only in the specific centre that hosts the relevant course(s). We plan to hold a further open week, with a similar format, in June. Modern Apprenticeship Programme UHI Argyll has continued to develop our Modern Apprenticeship programme, with numbers rising year on year. From April 2024 to March 2025, we have welcomed 73 new Modern Apprentices. At the prestigious Scottish Apprenticeship Awards, one of our apprentices was recently named winner of the Modern Apprentice of the Year SCQF Level 5 category. New short courses We have launched the following, April-start, short courses: • Business and Finance: An Introduction • Start date: Wednesday, April 23rd. Duration: 6 weeks. Time: 9.30am - 11am • Digital Skills for Beginners • Start date: Friday 25th April. Duration: 6 weeks. Time: 1pm-3pm • Developing Skills for Employment • Start date: Thursday 24th April. Duration: 6 weeks. Time: 2pm-4.30pm • English for Everyday (ESOL Level 4) • Start date: Wednesday, April 30th. Duration: 5 weeks. Time: 6.30pm-8.30pm Fee waivers are available (for those who are eligible) for all above courses. Commercial courses We are running the following commercial courses: Elementary Food Hygiene - full day. 12th May. Elementary Food Hygiene – full day (Ukrainian). 15th May Scottish Certificate for Personal Licence Training (SCPLH – full day). 14th May or 4th June
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Principal and Chief Executive: Martin Jones www.argyll.uhi.ac.uk UHI Argyll is a trading name of Argyll College Ltd a charity registered in Scotland No SC026685 Registered address: West Bay, Dunoon, PA23 7HP Academic year 2025-26 Staff and students are busy preparing for the final assessments of the 2024-25 academic year. Planning and preparations are well under way for the new academic year, and we plan to continue our “Keep Warm” initiative to provide regular updates and better support to our applicants to help them prepare for their new course. To ensure sufficient numbers, enabling courses to run, UHI Argyll in Oban are promoting, in particular, their 2 NC Beauty courses; NC Beauty Care and Make-Up Level 5 NC Beauty Care Level 6 Theresa Bain Cluster Centre Manager, UHI Argyll Theresa.Bain@uhi.ac.uk UHI Argyll (Oban) Glenshellach Ind Estate, Oban PA34 4RY Oban.Argyll@uhi.ac.uk