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Our first podcast of 2019/20 deals with an important issue: hate crime. Sara Turkington, our Equality and Inclusion Advisor, and Elizabeth Burnet, our Campus Liaison Officer, got together during Hate Crime Awareness Week to record a special podcast episode about the subject. Here they talk about the definition of hate crime and what to do … Continue reading Understanding and tackling hate crime

Alice is an Ayrshire College alumni and current university student. She is also the founder of her own complementary therapies business, Carrick Complementary Therapies (previously Ayrshire Complementary Therapies). 

In this podcast we hear from Megan Graham. After completing her HNC Make-up, Megan took some time out to focus on herself, built her impressive instagram account and start her own make-up/body-painting business.

In our podcast Mark chats to us about how he became a student, how that led him to be a business owner and what his top tips are for being a hairdresser/barber.

In this podcast, we spoke to David Aitchison, a former student who studied computing, and his parents Gillian and Peter to find out how the Inclusive Learning Team supported David throughout his time at Ayrshire College. David’s mum and dad interpreted as David signed to them, summing up his experience at Ayrshire College, David said: … Continue reading What colleges do to support students: how the Inclusive Learning team can help

Frank Gormanley is the founder of the Ayrshire-based marketing and business consultancy Forever Great, and a board member of the Ayrshire Chamber of Commerce. He has also previously been a lecturer here at Ayrshire College. So that's a snapshot of where he is now. But where did Frank's journey begin? Listen to his story here!