UHI Argyll
Argyll and Bute Council · 12 February 2025
Back to Oban Lorn & the Isles Area Community Planning Group — 12 February 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: Update for Oban, Lorn and the Isles Community Planning Group meeting 12/2/2025 Semester two Semester 2 began on Monday 20th January. We are offering the following January-start courses at our Oban centre (some other centres have additional practical courses on offer): • NQ Access to Further Education, SCQF level 4. Full time, short course (3 days/week for 11 weeks). Available at all UHI Argyll centres. • NC Horticulture, SCQF level 5. Full time, single semester course (3 days/week for 17 weeks). Available at Dunoon centre only. • NPA Games Development, SCQF level 5. Part-time (Thursdays) for 17 weeks. Available at all UHI Argyll centres. • PDA Technology Enabled Care, SCQF level 7. Part-time: 4 hours/week for 17 weeks. Available at all UHI Argyll centres. • Health and Social Care: Administration of Medication PDA. Part-time for 6 months. Available at all UHI Argyll centres. As always, there is the option to infill onto many of our other courses that run for the full academic year. Applicants can choose a single unit or several units and should contact their local centre to enquire about this. Commercial courses We are offering commercial courses on the following dates: • Personal Licence: 3rd March (full day), 7th April (full day), 9th and 16th April (evenings) • Elementary Food Hygiene: 10th March (full day), 31st March (full day), 12th and 19th April (evenings), 28th April (full day) First Aid training can be booked by contacting the local centre. Open events/taster sessions Instead of a single open day, we held taster events so that potential applicants could find out more about our courses. Below is a list of events that we held prior to the start of semester two: • Garden Design workshop (online) • Plant propagation workshop (Helensburgh) • Horticulture Courses at UHI Argyll, information session (online) • Maritime Rope Workshop (Oban) • Introduction to Plantsmanship (online) • Access to Further Education, information session (online) • Computer Games Development workshop (online) •
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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 We also have an online event scheduled for various dates later in the academic year: • Childhood, Youth, Community Development and Children’s Rights online workshop: 6th March; 1st May; 7th August; 2nd October. Timings for all dates are 6.30-7.30pm. Theresa Bain Cluster Centre Manager UHI Argyll Theresa.Bain@uhi.ac.uk