AYRSHIRE COLLEGE WINS SEMTA SKILLS AWARD

That this House congratulates Ayrshire College on winning the Semta Skills Award for Training Partner of the Year 2017; understands that Ayrshire College has developed a close strategic partnership with industry that supports both the students to learn valuable in-demand skills and local companies need for highly trained individuals to join the workforce; notes that Ayrshire College has sparked the imagination of 200 school pupils and college students with its competition to design a space experiment aided by NASA experts, the winning entry will be tested at the International Space Station in 2017; applauds its #ThisAyrshireGirlCan campaign to encourage more girls into engineering and advancing equality by promoting apprenticeships to female students; recognises the great success of its scheme to retrain unemployed engineers and through a partnership business help them re-join the local workforce; wishes Ayrshire College continued success with its strategic partnership approach.