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05 March 2010
Adam Smith College is gearing up to host this years Scottish World Skills UK Championships for technology. The event will see Scotland’s IT talent battle against each other for a place in the final to be held in Milton Keynes.
04 March 2010
Sean Nolan, Hairdresser to the stars and International Artistic Director for Burlingtons demonstrated his collection of emerging trends at this year’s Adam Smith College Hair Masterclass.
01 March 2010
Adam Smith College student Gary Campbell has certainly made some great connections during his BSc Applied Networking course at the College’s Priory Campus in Kirkcaldy.
26 February 2010
Adam Smith College joins iTunes U (www.itunes.co.uk), a dedicated area of the iTunes Store that offers free audio and video content from leading educational institutions. Users can easily search, download and play course content just like they do music and movies on their computer or on-the-go with their iPod or iPhone.
25 February 2010
Students studying Business at Adam Smith College are benefitting from a new Business Club launched this week by the College’s Chair of the Board of Governors, Graham Johnstone.
24 February 2010
Adam Smith College is seeing a bumper rise in applications to College courses all of which is being made easier thanks to new online systems which have recently been introduced.
22 February 2010
Dr Craig Thomson, Principal of Adam Smith College, has highlighted how the transition to a low carbon economy offers one of the greatest economic opportunities known for a generation.
18 February 2010
Adam Smith College and the Russell Trust Scholarship celebrated a bumper year this year as 35 students gathered to be presented with their scholarship awards. The awards were presented by Fred Bowden and Iona Russell from the Russell Trust, who were welcomed to the College by Assistant Principal Beth Dickson.
18 February 2010
Adam Smith College are pleased to announce that a new appointment to the College’s Board of Governors has become available. This is an opportunity for an individual to make a real contribution to the strategic planning of one of Scotland’s largest colleges, where the focus is that of its customers.
15 February 2010
Adam Smith College hosted a lecture on Naval Architecture at the College’s St Brycedale Campus recently. An audience of over 60 delegates enjoyed the lecture which was delivered by Les Dickson, Commercial Director, Northern Europe, Serimax.
08 February 2010
Students from Adam Smith College were celebrating recently after completing a new 18 week ‘Step In’ course.
05 February 2010
Pupils from Kirkcaldy High School have proved they are world leaders in creative digital media.
The pupils have been involved in a unique project, ‘Digital Creator’ which was run in partnership with Adam Smith College and the British Computer Society (BCS) – The Chartered Institute for IT. The project was piloted at the school in 2009 and was such a great success that it is now being rolled out across the world including, Ireland, The Netherlands, South Africa and the US.
02 February 2010
Adam Smith College was last night host to the annual Kirkcaldy Schools Careers Convention. As previous years the event was a great success and saw over 250 people come through the doors to talk with College staff and exhibitors. The convention which was actively promoted to all Kirkcaldy High Schools gave pupils, parents and the general public the opportunity to visit the College, some of whom may never been to the College before. The event was also attended by many other colleges and universities, the armed forces, training providers and employers.
01 February 2010
Two Adam Smith College students, who are currently studying social sciences, were recently selected to take part in the Lessons from Auschwitz project. The project, which is run by the Holocaust Education Trust, has been set up to take students on a journey of learning and exploration while educating them on the history of the Holocaust.