10 . Glasgow Business October 2014
Education
Learning initiative launched to help Forces veterans into new careers after service
Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) is working with HM Forces, three Glasgow colleges – City of Glasgow, Glasgow Kelvin and Glasgow Clyde – and Glasgow’s Helping Heroes to launch a Learning Partnership.
This major education
initiative provides ex- servicemen and women with a pathway to sustainable quality employment through further and higher education. The Partnership, chaired
by Jim Castle, Lecturer in Construction Technology and Building Surveying at GCU’s School of Engineering and the Built Environment (SEBE), originated in discussions between Major Gene Maxwell, Jim Castle and Professor Douglas Greenhalgh, formerly Executive Dean and Pro Vice-Chancellor of SEBE. It is intended to address the fact that ex-British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force personnel, particularly those who leave the services after only a short time, may not consider further or higher education as part of their transition back to civilian life. The GCU project will
work with college partners to provide a comprehensive choice of educational opportunities to service leavers. Some will enter at university level while others will start on a pre-college foundation, NC, HNC or HND course with the potential to proceed to university.
Training facilities
College thanked for hosting 2014 athletes with unique mementos
G
lasgow Clyde College played a part in this summer’s Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth
Games by hosting athletes in its world-class training facilities. Netball teams, including medal
winners Australia, New Zealand and Jamaica, used the facilities at the College’s Langside Campus during the Games. Glasgow Clyde College was
recently presented with a number of items from the Glasgow 2014 Organising Commitee, to commemorate the College’s role in the Games. Isobel Millar, Training Venues Manager, presented the college
with a commemorative wooden medal tray, a netball and a framed Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games flag. Te medal tray, designed by
Glasgow designer Paul Hodgkiss and used on day one of the Games, has been specially modified to commemorate the college as a training venue for the Games.
”With these gifts, we will have a lasting reminder of the Games”
Te items will be displayed at
the College’s Langside Campus as a lasting memento of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Duncan McDougall,
Director of Commercial and International Business, said: “Te Commonwealth Games have been great for Glasgow and we are very proud that Glasgow Clyde College was able to be part of it as a training venue. With these giſts, we will have a lasting reminder of the Games. Glasgow Clyde College provides sports and fitness courses from foundation level to HND and this thank you from Glasgow 2014 is a testimony to our commitment to sport.”
From left: Isobel Millar,
Training Venues Manager, Glasgow Commonwealth Games; John Canning, Head
of Commercial Development, Glasgow Clyde College; and Elaine Donnelly, Business Development Consultant, Glasgow Clyde College
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