Category Archives: Scotland Colleges

Quick Newsletter – Summer 2014

Quick – Out Now!
The spring edition of College Development Network’s
Quick newsletter has now been published.
This quarterly newsletter aims to keep you up-to-date with the wide range of activity that College Development Network is undertaking on behalf of and with colleges in Scotland.
In this issue
  • Enabling Student Carers – New resources launched
  • Skills for Progression Event
  • Food and Drink Manufacturing Work-stream
  • The Emporium of Dangerous Ideas – Launch, Listings and Finale

… and more!

Creative Apprenticeships: LIVE with Angela Constance MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Training, Youth and Women’s Employment

On Wednesday 21st May from 2pm – 2.30pm, Young Scot will be hosting Creative Apprenticeships: LIVE – a live broadcast for young people to promote and showcase Creative and Digital Apprenticeships during Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2014.  We know that young people in S1 – S3 are starting to think about potential career paths and subject choices, so we are providing this event to make them aware of all options open to them. We’re also delighted to be joined by Cabinet Secretary for Training, Youth and Women’s Employment, Angela Constance MSP.

This will be a 30 minutes informal panel discussion live, with experts and former and current MAs answering questions directly from young people about Creative and Digital Apprenticeships and careers. The questions can be sent to us in advance by tweeting us @youngscot and include the hashtag #ScotMAWeek14 or questions can be tweeted during the event itself.  As well as answering questions, our panel will be talking about their experience and journeys as Modern Apprentices.

Taking part couldn’t be any easier. Please just let us know if your organisation or school is planning to take part in this event by responding to this email and at 2pm on Wednesday 21st May, you simply have to go to www.youngscot.org and follow the information provided.

To join in the creative apprenticeship conversation, tweet us @youngscot and include the hashtag #ScotMAWeek14. Young people can ask their questions now on Twitter and we’ll make sure all questions are answered.

For more information or if you’re having trouble accessing the stream, please contact us: info@youngscot.org

To find out more about the event, read our FAQ’s here: http://www.youngscot.org/mag/3063-scottish-apprenticeship-week-2014

New CPD sessions at DCA

Click on the link below to download the booklet from DCA detailing new creative CPD sessions for the next academic year.
DCA aim to combine their classroom experience with exciting programme content and ‘really useful’ resources so that teachers take away something that can be used in class the next day.  There is  a charge but within that they provide tea/coffee and cake/nibbles to keep folk going.

Young people invited to join Creative Generation project

Perth Museum & Art Gallery is looking for young people aged 16 to 25 to join a new project where they can discover more about the art world and life as a practising artist or budding curator.

Creative Generation is part of GENERATION, a national celebration of 25 years of contemporary art in Scotland, and young people taking part in the project will be focussing in particular on the work of Scottish painter Alison Watt, whose art will be showcased in an exhibition at Perth Museum and Art Gallery during the summer of 2014.

Participants will have the chance to gain experience of being an artist or curator and share their newly-gained knowledge with visitors to the Museum and Art Gallery.

Anyone aged 16 to 25 who is interested in studying art or in continuing art as a career is invited to apply. The closing date for applications is Monday 28th April 2014.

For further information and to obtain an application form, please visit Perth Museum and Art Gallery, George Street, Perth, email artsdev@pkc.gov.uk or call 01738 632488 and ask for Anna Murray, Project Coordinator for Creative Generation.

2050 Climate Group Opportunity

Young Scot, Scotland’s award-winning national youth information and citizenship agency, and the 2020 Climate Group, the national group working to deliver a low carbon future for Scotland. We are writing to ask you to help us to raise awareness and circulate an exciting new opportunity for young people; the 2050 Climate Group.

The 2050 Climate Group is a pioneering initiative within Scotland with the ultimate aim of empowering young people to shape Scotland’s low carbon future. The group will present a national platform to represent the voice of young people to engage, influence and shape the transformational change required for Scotland to progress to a low carbon economy. Group members will have the opportunity to engage in decision making at a national level and share their views, experiences and findings.

The 2050 Climate Group will make a unique contribution towards ensuring that young Scots have the opportunity to raise awareness of issues surrounding climate change and sustainable solutions and show young people that they need to be actively involved in creating a low carbon future for all. No formal qualifications are necessary but we do expect that all members have some degree of influence and leadership experience and will be able to commit to the group for a minimum of one year. It will provide young representatives with the opportunity to be part of leading the drive to a low carbon future for Scotland, undertake high quality training, improve skills and partake in great networking opportunities.

We are inviting young people aged 18-30 from across Scotland, who are passionate about the environment and want to make a difference, to apply to volunteer with this exciting new climate group and help to lead the drive to a low carbon future. This is an excellent opportunity for young individuals from business, NGO, Third Sector and community backgrounds, who are already having an influence in their communities, to make an even bigger impact.

Here is the link to the information: https://www.youngscot.org/mag/2996-18-30-we-need-you-to-help-stop-climate-change.

Opportunity – Network Rail Ambassadors

Interested in Rail Safety? Want to enhance your CV? Complete a Saltire Award?

If you answered “yes” to these three questions, we’d like to hear from you.

We’re looking for 30 young people aged 14 – 21 years from across Scotland to become Ambassadors to participate in a 12-month peer investigation programme in local Primary and Secondary schools to help promote safety on the railways and the new improvements to their local rail services. You will have the chance to advise important decision-makers from Network rail on what you think should happen to try and change young people’s and Scotland’s relationship with rail safety.

As a Ambassador you will take part in approximately 4-6 meetings and events throughout the year and also do some investigation work in your own time with the support of Young Scot and local partners.

If you interested in becoming an Ambassadors check out the documents below.

Application Closes – Tuesday 29th April

Ambassador_Role_Description_FINAL_VERSION_2014

Network Rail Ambassadors Application_Form_FINAL_VERSION_2014

I HEART SCOTLAND

The Travelling Gallery’s Spring 2014 exhibition, I HEART SCOTLAND, is a solo show and takes a refreshing look at how contemporary artist Rachel Maclean, has chosen to explore her ideas about Scottish national identity.

Issues around power, culture, politics and history are raised together with romanticism and folktales – all through Rachel’s ingenious use of costume performance, digital photography, film and installation.

By means of dark humour and remarkable technical skills, Rachel offers insightful and shrewd observations on these and other significant themes, creating a complex and surreal vision of modern Scotland in what is certainly an important year for people to ponder its future.

The I HEART SCOTLAND exhibition includes work that was commissioned, published and produced by Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop for her very successful exhibition there during the 2013 Edinburgh Art Festival.

So far, touring mainly to Secondary schools, we have visited venues accross Angus, Edinburgh, Midlothian and the Highlands where the installation has stimulated lots of discussion and created quite a buzz of excitement amongst pupils and teachers alike. Look at our website to see where we will be for the next leg of the tour…