Welcome to our Virtual Open Days! This is your chance to find out everything there is about starting College in the new academic year. You can find out about studying with us through our pre-recorded and live online content and will have an opportunity to speak to our staff about any questions you may have…
Our Health, Wellbeing & Social Science faculty offers courses across six subject areas: access and continuing education, childhood practice, health professions, social services, social science, and sport and fitness. The wide variety of courses are available at different levels enabling students to develop their skills at any point in life whether making the jump from…
Forty-three-year-old Maggie Taylor from Edinburgh returned to College to study HND Sports Therapy after withdrawing from the same course twenty years ago to start a family. Following two years of study, Maggie now leaves College with an HND in Sports Therapy, as well as walking away with the Marston Citizenship Award, which is given to…
Hundreds of Edinburgh College students gained insight into what it takes to make it in the Sport and Fitness industry as the College hosted its second annual Sport and Fitness Careers Day. The event aims to provide students with the chance to learn more about the range of different career paths in the sector and…
Edinburgh College and Heriot’s Rugby have announced an enhanced partnership which aims to deliver strategically aligned rugby and education opportunities to support the club’s new Super6 status. The agreement between the College and the club will see both parties strive to maximise the opportunities available to all involved. Heriot’s players will be offered access to…
Edinburgh College have lifted the Champions Trophy at the Scottish Student Sport College Cup for a sixth consecutive year. The College had a team in four of the seven finals held at Oriam on Wednesday, winning all of them to be crowned the overall winners. The day got underway with the mixed badminton final, with…
Edinburgh College Sport and Fitness Lecturer, Becky Galbraith featured live on BBC Alba for Scottish Women’s Premier League team, Spartans Ladies, in their league game against Glasgow City recently. The historic match was one of the first Scottish Women’s Premier League games to be shown live on TV. BBC Alba announced in September 2018…
Edinburgh College have lifted the Champions Trophy at the Scottish Student Sport College Cup for a fifth consecutive year. The college had a team in each of the seven finals held at Oriam yesterday, winning six of them to be crowned the overall winners. The day got underway with the mixed badminton final against City…
Students at Scotland’s colleges and universities will soon have more and even better opportunities to get involved in sport, thanks to a £465,000 investment announced at Edinburgh College. The Scottish Government money will be made available to Scottish Student Sport (SSS) through the Scottish Funding Council. SSS was established in 2011 and works with colleges and…
Edinburgh College student Scott Ellis Paddon is hoping to impress judges with his acrobatics at this weekend’s Scottish Student Trampolining League One Championship. Eighteen year-old Scott, from Fife, is the first representative from the college to participate in the competition which sees students from across Scotland’s colleges and universities competing at different skill levels. Access…
Edinburgh College Sport and Fitness lecturer Pauline MacDonald has been appointed Girls’/Women’s Youth Performance Pathway Manager and U-17s head coach of the Scotland women’s international football team. A former Scotland international herself, capped 66 times for her country, she becomes the third full-time female coach working for the Scottish women’s international teams, along with Shelley…
College students demonstrated their sporting prowess at the inaugural College Sports Festival held at Edinburgh College, aimed at encouraging college students to participate in sport during their studies. The event, hosted by Scottish Student Sport (SSS), saw around 250 students taking part in a variety of sports including football, basketball, touch rugby, touchtennis, volleyball and…
Edinburgh College student Robbie Anderson has won a gold medal in the indoor bowls pairs at the 2017 Special Olympics. Robbie, who has learning difficulties and has just finished the college’s Entry to Sport course, went through the competition undefeated, claiming four victories from four matches alongside partner Raymond Brumley. The Special Olympics is the…
Former Edinburgh College student Allan Smith is heading to Chinese Taipei to compete in the Men’s High Jump at the World University Games 2017. The 24-year-old HND Fitness, Health and Exercise graduate was selected, along with 19 other student athletes, to represent Great Britain and Northern Ireland as part of the British Universities and Colleges…
Edinburgh College students took home the top trophy at the Scottish Student Sport College Cup Finals last Wednesday, for the fourth year in a row. The annual event features the most talented college student athletes from across Scotland, who come together to compete to be national champions. Edinburgh College entered teams into six out of…