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College Information Evening| 24.08.10
South Lanarkshire College East Kilbride’s will host an information evening on Tuesday 24 August 2010 from 4.30 - 7 pm.
The event will be a drop-in Information session for full-time and part-time courses commencing August 2010 and will be held at our state-of-the-art Campus in East Kilbride. Members of Faculty staff will be on hand to answer questions and give information and advice on full-time, part-time and infill study courses.
For further information on the event please contact South Lanarkshire College’s admissions team on 01355 270750.
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Partners Sign up for Climate Change| 29.06.10
On Tuesday 29 June 2010, South Lanarkshire Council's Community Planning Partners Joined Councillor Eddie McAvoy and Councillor Hamish Stewart, Chair of South Lanarkshire Sustainability Partnershipto sign up to the declaration at the College's Low Carbon House - 'Aurora'.
For further information, please read the press release.
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Beauty Sucess| 16.06.10
HND Beauty student Karen Johnstone, was announced as the winner of the The Young Enterprise Scotland, Small Business Programme, Business Planning Competition in June of this year. Fellow student Colette Jarvie was also named as the competition's runner up.
Karen's business plan was noted as standing out from the others as it identified a 'gap in the market', 'was of a high quality, notably her industry analysis and marketing plan' and contained 'financial assumptions which were well thought through and realistic.
Her reward a financial initial investment for her new business venture . Karen was awarded with the prize at the Young Enterprise Annual Awards Dinner which was held at Hampden Park on Wednesday 16 June.
All student submissions for the award were highly commended for their effort. ICAS commented that this effort 'would stand their authors in good stead should they pursue their own business in the future'. They also commented that all business plans 'displayed strong evidence of passion and understanding of the beauty business'.
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Charity Walk| 14.06.10
On Monday 14 June, South Lanarkshire College Painting and Decorating year 1 students raised £1000 in aid of MacMillan Cancer Care by participating in a sponsored walk through the vast Achray Forest, Aberfoyle.
The students thoroughly enjoyed the experience and were thrilled to raise so much for the worthy cause. Pictures of the successful students with their lecturers Brian Hannigan and Mark Haddow are included.
For more information on this event, please read the press release.
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Footprint Training| 13.06.10
Three students (Jason Tobin, David McBeth and Andrew Cathie) from NC Digital Media Computing recently completed Footprint training at Glasgow Caledonian University. The project aims to empower students to take a leading role in reducing the carbon footprints of the communities in which they live.
The carbon management training will enable them to carry out campus and community carbon audits that result in significant carbon savings and positive behaviour change. They have audited Glasgow Caledonian University and South Lanarkshire College. They were very impressed when shown around the colleges Low Carbon House.
The pilot project involves working with two colleges and two universities in Scotland, training and supporting students to be Carbon Ambassadors.
The volunteers will gain practical experience of reducing the carbon emissions of organisations, enabling them to make a difference to the communities in which they live. They will be visiting other schools and colleges to give their advice on reducing carbon emissions during the next few months.
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Ab Fab event| 10.06.10
Beauty therapy students Lisa Black, Lisa McDonald, Michelle Sinclair and Angela Flowerday helped out at a party night in beauty salon AB FAB. The night was a fun filled night with raffles, different treatmetns and demos, all the girls worked their socks off for the full 3 hours doing file and polishes at the nail bar.
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Pre-Apps Students Visit Royal Glasow Concert Hall| 09.06.10
Students from the Construction faculty's Pre-apprenticeship course to the Royal Concert Hall on Wednesday 9th June for a careers exhibition hosted by Jobserve UK. |
Alex Neil MSP visits College’s Home of the Future| 09.06.10
Alex Neil, Minister for Housing and Communities, today (Wednesday 9 June), visited the first affordable, low-energy, low-carbon home at South Lanarkshire College, East Kilbride. The low-energy, low-carbon house ‘Aurora’ is the result of a successful and unique partnership between South Lanarkshire College, Dawn Homes and more than 50 private sector partners. It showcases the low-energy technologies and high insulation levels capable of reducing energy use and energy bills to zero while contributing towards challenging government targets to reduce greenhouse gases and carbon emissions. The low-energy house exceeds building standards requirements that are recommended to come into force in 2013 and then in 2016/2017 by The Sullivan Report: ‘A Low Carbon Building Standards Strategy for Scotland’. It also leads the way as a blueprint for eco-friendly house construction and is providing a unique training facility in the UK to teach students the principles behind low-energy buildings.
South Lanarkshire College’s low energy house project with Dawn Homes won a Business to College Innovation Award on 24 March 2010. It also won the homes for Scotland Award for Environment and Sustainablity on 21 May 2010.
For more information on this event, please read the press release. |
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