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Planning For Skills: Colleges at the Heart of Regional Economic Development

Ross Martin, Chair of Forth Valley College and ERG Team Member, shares the team’s thoughts on the latest factors Scotland‘s Colleges sho...

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The Role of Colleges in Regional Economic Development

Willie Mackie, Chair of the Economic Recovery Group (ERG), shares a short update on the programme: The operational environment for regi...

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Raising the profile of college lecturer professionalism

Blog article written by CDN College Awards Gold Sponsor – GTC Scotland The national roll out of college lecturer registration is now we...

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The impact of climate reality is now understood. What we do next will make the difference.

Blog article written by CDN College Awards Gold Sponsor - The Verdancy Group With awareness of environmental issues at an all-time high, ...

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Scotland’s Colleges Are Working Together to Tackle The Climate Emergency

Over the next two weeks, Scotland proudly hosts the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference - uniting the world to tackle climate change. ...

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Event Summary: College Climate Change Conference 2021

Over 120 delegates virtually attended the first ever #CollegeClimateChange Conference, which took place online on Wednesday 6 October. Takin...

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Starting the new academic year with a bang!

Gordon Hunt, CDN Associate Research and Enhancement Centre, shares a short update on current Research projects: It’s been a big month f...

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A time for change

Grant Ritchie, Fellow and Associate Director shares why now is a time for change and explains the great benefits of CDN's Research and Enhan...

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Plastic Free July

For #PlasticFreeJuly, we caught up with some Scottish colleges to find out what action they are taking to cut back on plastic…...

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Ayrshire College continue Passing Positivity with charity single

After winning the Innovation Award and the Judges’ Award at the 2020 College Awards for their #PassingPositivity mental health initiative,...

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Developing Digital Skills – Part 4

In the fourth of his blog-series, Education Consultant Walter Patterson provides an update on CDN's research into staff digital capability....

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Meet The Course Leader – Valerie Jackman

Valerie Jackman is Leadership and Governance Lead at CDN. She is an experienced educator, a skilled facilitator, a creative catalyst and an ...

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Developing Digital Skills – Part 3

In the third of his blog-series, Education Consultant Walter Patterson provides an update on CDN's research into staff digital capability. ...

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College Expo21 – Recap

Thanks to the hundreds of attendees and participants who made the two days of College Expo 21 such an incredible success!...

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Working in partnership to deliver for Scotland’s learners

Thanks to SQA for being a Virtual College Expo21 headline sponsor. ...

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