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Argyll and Bute Council · 4 February 2025
Back to Bute and Cowal Area Community Planning Group — 4 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 – Rothesay and Dunoon: Update for Bute and Cowal Area Community Planning Group
21/01/2025 
Semester two
Semester began on Monday 20th January. We are offering the following January-start courses at our Dunoon or
Rothesay centres (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.
• 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. 
Sheena Finlay                                                            
Assistant Centre Manager (Rothesay)
sheena.finlay@uhi.ac.uk
Rhona Altin
Assistant Centre Manager (Dunoon)
rhona.altin@uhi.ac.uk