Two Edinburgh College students can now say they’re the best in the UK after winning at a national skills competition. Tony Mailer and Calum Munro were awarded gold medals for their outstanding performance in a series of skills challenges at WorldSkills UK Live at the weekend. Tony beat off stiff competition from five other students…
The 2017/18 Edinburgh College Students’ Association (ECSA) officer team ended their year’s tenure by winning one of the top prizes at the UK-wide NUS Awards. ECSA won the Officer Team of the Year Award, beating competition from another seven universities and colleges across the UK. The 2017/18 sabbatical team – president Neal Black and vice presidents Beth Anderson…
Edinburgh College is inspiring the next generation of care workers by giving local school pupils the chance to experience real work looking after younger children, several years before they’d usually do work experience. Thirty-one local P6 school pupils have learned about the skills required to work in the care sector and have gained valuable work…
Sequins, jazz-hands and twinkle-toed dance steps were on display at Edinburgh College’s Granton Campus as the college hosted its first ever Ballroom Factor. More than 200 people filled the college’s campus to watch 18 members of staff take to the dance floor and compete in the ballroom extravaganza. The event was a collaboration between staff and students from…
An Edinburgh College Graphic Design student is set to challenge Scotland’s young people to delve deeper into the relationship between art and science at the first ever TEDxYouth@Glasgow event. Natalie Loh will be giving a talk on ‘Art or Science?’ to encourage the audience to explore new ideas, consider the other option and discover their…