The Principal of Dundee College opens the National Convention on Youth Employment Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending part of the National Convention on Youth Employment at Dundee College’s Gardyne Campus, along with a large gathering of national and local politicians, major employers, JobCentre Plus, the further & higher education sectors and many others. The [...]
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Willie and me at Dundee College yesterday Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats Willie Rennie MSP was in Dundee yesterday to visit Dundee College with me, touring the new Gardyne Campus and also discussing college funding cuts with Principal Christina Potter, Depute Principal Grant Ritchie and Assistant Principal Leslie Dick. Speaking after the [...]
Later yesterday afternoon, I had a very interesting tour of the fabulous newly opened Gardyne Campus of Dundee College and I am most grateful to the Depute Principal of the college for the guided tour of what is a superb learning facility – see right. My main reason for the visit was to see the [...]
I am on Wave 102 News this morning about the concerns over Dundee College funding cuts – click ‘play’ to listen :
Willie Rennie on the SNP’s college funding cuts …
Posted: November 10, 2011 in Dundee College, Liberal Democrats, University of Abertay, Willie RennieDear Fraser, Today at First Minister’s Questions I asked if the SNP government would use some of the £67 million of extra funding they have received from our government at Westminster to fill the £40 million college funding gap. The SNP took the decision to cut college funding, which could threaten nearly 9000 student places [...]
Future of post-16 education
Posted: November 5, 2011 in Dundee College, University of Abertay, University of DundeeMeeting at the University of Abertay Dundee Last night, along with representatives from the University College Union (UCU) at the University of Dundee, the University of Abertay Dundee and London Metropolitan University and a UCU national representative, the National Union of Students (NUS), Abertay Students’ Association and parliamentary representatives from Labour and the SNP, I [...]
On the day the First Minister opened the refurbished Dundee College premises, along with my colleague Cllr David May, Convener of Angus Council’s Infrastructure Committee, I met with Dundee and Angus Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive Alan Mitchell, regarding our joint concerns at huge cuts to the college budgets at Angus College and Dundee College. The Chamber of Commerce [...]
Monday activities …
Posted: February 1, 2010 in Blackness Primary School, Digital Radio, Dundee College, Harris Academy, Mitchell Street, River Crescent, Wave 102Apart from a busy day with the ‘day job’, I held two surgeries late this afternoon at the Mitchell Street Centre and Harris Academy. I was interviewed on Wave 102′s “Dundee Tonight” at 6pm about waiting list concerns at Dundee College and other further education colleges across Scotland. This evening, I spoke with the Blackness [...]
As reported in today’s Courier, following the Scottish Liberal Democrats publishing figures on Thursday showing that many colleges are turning away four times as many applicants as last year and long waiting lists at many colleges, through a Freedom of Information Request made by the Liberal Democrats, it had been revealed that Dundee College has [...]
