Telford College

Time Bank is launching on the 11th October from 6 – 8pm at the North Edinburgh Arts,15a Pennywell Court. Everyone welcome.
A time bank lets people earn time credits for the time they spend helping others in the community. It acknowledges everyone has something to contribute to their neighbourhood and encourages people to share their skills and experiences with others. Come along , be entertained, enjoy some food and find out more about time banking. RSVP: north.timebank@volunteeredinburgh.or g.uk

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Update: Moodle is now fully functional after yesterday's interruption to the power supply. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Here's something interesting for all you photographers out there: http://www.ed.ac.uk/…/alwale…/muslims -in-britain/photography

ETC is looking for a new HR Assistant! For more details, please see the main ETC website: http://www.ed-coll.ac.uk/vacancies/showVa cancies.aspx…

Some of the amazing work on show at last night's Ministry of Make-up!

More Congratulations to all the winners from this afternoon's Sport and Fitness Prize-giving!

Congratulations to all the winners at last nights Beauty Therapy Awards Ball!

As part of a new course development at Edinburgh’s Telford College Career Option Joinery and Painting and Decorating students have been carrying out citizenship projects in the local community by carrying out work for charitable organisations. Recent projects have included building and designing bespoke units and cabinets to create a health information library at Pilton Equalities Project, refitting office space, creating storage and building additional worktops to create an... area for staff and clients to work together at Stepping Stones Project. The students have also built a fence at North Edinburgh Childcare to create a safe area for the children to play in. The work students have carried out, has complimented their course work by providing learners with on the job experience and helping build key essential skills.
Feedback from projects overall has been extremely positive. Marilyn Keilloh Stepping Stones Manager said: “I would like to take this opportunity to thank Emma, Colin and all the students who have done such great work for us in the last few weeks. Our new desk space and storage facilities will make a very real difference to how we work in the office. They have also been very accommodating and have come up with some really innovative ideas to solve some of our space problems. As a small project with a very limited budget it has been a great help to us to get this work done. Also, we provide support services to very young parent families and pregnant teenagers so it is good that your students are able to help a project which supports people from their own age group. I would be really grateful if you could pass on my thanks from everyone here at Stepping Stones.”
The students themselves felt they gained a large amount of skills and experience by participating in these projects. Dale Horribine Career Option Joinery said “I think our class worked really well as part of a team in the projects. I would like to do more of these types of projects; it gives us the opportunity to gain new skills and to put our skills into practice in and around the community. It was the perfect work experience"
Sharon McCue-Livingstone, Head of Construction within the college fully supports this initiative within the department and hopes that this can be extended to all areas of Construction within the college. “This is exactly the type of project that enhances what we believe is core to students experience, that of real working environment. My hope is to enhance and extend this activity as much as possible into all areas of Construction to provide essential employability skills for our students.”
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Congratulations to the Beyond Beauty Team (Lisa Robertson, Elena Coutts, Joana Dudziak and Ami-Louise MacDonald) won the 10 years younger competition run by Scotland’s Colleges. Why not have a look at their winning presentation?http://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=Hn8DufFTLqc&hd=1

Tanzanian Wilfred Moshi has reached the summit of Mount Everest. His flag launches the Global Vision Project, an initiative by the Twende Pamoja Trust, and branded by Edinburgh Telford Graphic Design student Jonathan Walton. Congratulations!!

Are you going on to University in September? Book yourself onto a workshop - held at the college on Monday 21st May 1pm - 2pm R207 and Tuesday 29th May at 10am - 11am B105. The workshop is a short intro on what you can expect at university. There will be an introduction to university jargon and the specific marking criteria, assessment regulations, and support service contacts for Napier, QMU and Heriot Watt. Email Peter.Scott@ed-coll.ac.uk to book your place.