UHI Argyll - Rothesay

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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 
Rothesay Joint Campus
High Street, Rothesay
Isle of Bute
PA20 9JH 
UHI Argyll – Rothesay: Update for Bute and Cowal Area Community Planning Group
02.08.2022                        
UHI Argyll in Rothesay offers courses from entry level through to post graduate level. 
During this coming academic session, we have students preparing to study the following courses:
 NC and HNC Horticulture
 Access to Nursing (Scottish Wider Access Programme)
 NC Early Education and Childcare
 HNC Childhood Practice
 HNC Social Science
 NC Computing with Digital Media
 BAH Child and Youth Studies
 BAH Childhood Practice. 
We also offer SVQ courses at various levels, and this year we will have students studying Social Services and
Healthcare, and Social Services - Children and Young People. 
For secondary school students at Rothesay Academy, we have students studying the following Skills for Work
courses:
Sport and Recreation; Early Education and Childcare; Health Sector Skills. 
School pupils will also be studying networked courses with us, such as Higher Psychology, Sociology; NPA courses;
PDA courses or Foundation Apprenticeships. 
We also offer NQ courses to the wider community: 
National 5 English, Mathematics, Application of Mathematics.
Higher English, Mathematics. 
The Rothesay staff have been working with the SAWA project: a partnership involving Argyll and Bute Council, Live
Argyll, Mount Stuart and UHI Argyll. We are running a vocational qualification in horticulture with preparation for
employment skills for New Scots. Students will be tutored alongside volunteers at Mount Stuart gardens and will begin their
practical horticulture unit later this month. 
Sheena Finlay
Assistant Centre Manager (Rothesay)
sheena.finlay@uhi.ac.uk