News and blogs

We asked our industry champions to tell us why they love their jobs, and this short video is the result...

Our #blog this week is by Andrew Kirkland, a UHI environmental science graduate, who reflects upon the opportunities that training and qualifications can provide

Three months of lock down. Months of home schooling, Joe Wicks, online shops, daily walks, online meetings, dropped connections, anxious news checking, disturbed dreams, innovation...

“The Skills Matching Service gave me the exact person I was looking for, which has been a huge help in these difficult times.”

We’re delighted to have as our blogger this week, Elise Cox, a student with Inverness College UHI who writes about her experiences of tackling invasive...

An animal care centre has found a new member of staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to our new skills matching service.

A new report published by Lantra Scotland addresses challenges for the land and sea industries which were identified at skills summits in December and January...

Last week, the children and I sat down together to watch the First Minister’s unveiling of the four-phase "route map", aimed at restarting society while...

Although balancing home-schooling and work continues to be a challenge, it has been rather nice to return to my roots, teaching the kids some botany...

Before I begin to write about migrants, I think it only fair to declare a bias: meeting a migrant worker changed my life. At the...