Our Social and Vocational Studies department are a dedicated, qualified and specialist team with extensive experience teaching and supporting students who benefit from additional support for their learning. We caught up with SVS subject leader - Charlie Collie - to find out a bit more about him, and his job.

Katie Mackie is an indie-pop artist hailing from the north east of Scotland who completed her BA Hons in Popular Music during her two years at Perth College UHI.

Nicole came to college straight from school and, alongside her studies, works at the Academy of Sport and Wellbeing. We caught up with her to find out how she progressed through the college, and what her job at the college gym entails.

To celebrate International Woman’s Day today (Monday 8 March 2021) we are showcasing and celebrating women's achievements. We spoke to student Iliana Dimitrova Dimitrova, currently in Year 3 of her BEng (Hons) Aircraft Engineering course.

For #UniMentalHealthDay, our Student Support Team have put together a great blog

To celebrate #EngineersWeek, we had a chat with Alison Field - to find out why she decided to return to education, and to see what her progression plans are.

If you are celebrating #PancakeDay, try our simple and delicious recipe 😋

You can’t go wrong with a simple fudge. This two-tone valentine’s version, only requires four ingredients – so it couldn’t be simpler! ♥️

Gordon – Head Chef at Sodexo – is back with a lovely warming soup recipe, to keep you going through the cold days.

For this month’s Staff Spotlight, we caught up with Sport and Fitness Lecturer - Ollie James - who has worked at Perth College UHI for over a year now. His colleagues describe him as a very funny guy - who dresses up as a dinosaur for team meetings - as well as hard working, conscientious, and caring towards his students. Ollie gives us an insight into his job roles, and his particular dislike of cheese.

Our guest blogger - Claire Nelson, Perth College UHI Counsellor - writes:

So, we are well into January and, by now, our New Year’s resolutions may very well have been thrown out the window. We might have got ourselves into Christmas debt, the joys of Christmas Day are long gone, and it still seems like ages until January payday! Sound familiar? Oh, hello ‘Blue Monday’.

For this week’s student spotlight, we caught up with Lisa Oliver to find out why she decided to do an online course, alongside her part-time job.

Did you know, Friday 1st January is Commitment Day and Saturday 2nd January is Motivation/Inspiration Day? The New Year can be a really good opportunity to evaluate our lives. This year, more than ever.

Our Student Support Worker – Apryll - has been with Perth College UHI for over a year now and is so enthusiastic about her role, that we had to chat to her

Since 2003, 11 December has been International Mountain Day – a chance to celebrate mountains and create awareness about their importance to all of us.

To celebrate National Brownie Day (yes that’s a thing) we’ve put together a really simple brownie recipe for you to follow.

We are really pleased to have Domini Grant as our guest blogger this week. Domini is an Early Education and Childcare Lecturer at Perth College UHI, and wants to share her experience of being diagnosed with dyslexia at a later stage in life.

Hello! I am the new HISA Communications Intern, Will Derries. To ensure that HISA Perth are communicating with you - our students, as best they can - they have appointed me as the new Communications Intern.