Three independent colleges, Argyll, Skye and Wester Ross and Lochaber colleges are moving towards a merger which will see them branded as West Highland College. This new college will be a partner in the UHI Millennium Institute. It is also planned that the new college will work closely with existing further education centres in Inverness and North Highland.
The advantages of the move are said to be that a unified college will provide greater access to a range of higher education opportunities, up to post-graduate level. The Scottish Funding Council has agreed in principle to fund the new college directly, contributing towards the costs of learning and teaching, skills development, research, innovation and other costs such as staff, buildings and equipment.
Wilma Campbell, Chair of Argyll College is quoted as saying: ‘We will use this to achieve the equity of tertiary education provision to which the people of the west Highlands have aspired and to which they are entitled’.
You have spelling mistakes on the home page!
Advanatges, primciple
And W of west Highland should be capital, shouldn’t it?
Good luck anyway!
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Thank you Sùsaidh. Corrections made. We welcome this input – in fact, obviously, we need it. Our problem is that we’re a tiny team working all hours. Our eyes get shot after hours at the screen, typing madly and we don’t even see all the typos when we do the checking. This extends to not understanding what the spell-checker’s problem is – until later. Our typo rate is making us more forgiving of the Grauniad.
We’ve left the ‘west’ in ‘west Highlands’ uncapitalised because that is a moot point. It has always been capitalised in the title of the new college – West Highland College, a different grammatical demand. At least we were still able to see at that point.
True confessions time – when we went to correct the typos you reported, we actually found even more. Guilty party has gone off to make an emergency appointment at Vision Express. And thanks. Keep ‘em coming.
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