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In the next blog post of the #NeverTooLateToLearn series – where members of our Marketing team shadowed one of our mature students throughout a typical day at college – PR Officer Martin Currie spoke to Victoria Lanni, a 32-year-old HNC Applied Science student.

Next in our series of blogs finding out about 'A Day in the Life Of' a student, Katie Ralston, Marketing and PR Officer, visited Eleanor Lochhead.

As the 2017/18 school year has come to an end, many Ayrshire secondary pupils will have completed their school-college course at Ayrshire College and be thinking about what’s next. Maybe it’s a full-time course at College?

We have been speaking to some entrepreneurs of Ayrshire – many of them former Ayrshire College students – to hear all about their businesses, but more importantly to find out how they got started.

After working in hairdressing for over 30 years, Nancy Neill decided it was time for a change. She applied for the NC Health and Social Care course at Kilmarnock Campus and, just after completing the course, secured her dream job.

Marketing have been tasked with spending a “Day in the life of” a variety of students. As a Marketing and PR Officer, I quite often interview students for blogs, case studies and press stories. However, I haven’t had the opportunity to spend the day as the ‘student’.

Claire Todd, who is on a work experience placement with our Marketing team, has been spending time visiting students around the College.

PR Work Experience, Claire Todd met with Caroline Greer and Katie Ralston. Both work within the marketing department at Ayrshire College and took up the Digital Photography night class.

Ayrshire College creative students celebrated in style with a spectacular end of year show at the College’s Riverside Building in Ayr. Showcasing a wide range of work from art and design to fashion, media and photography, the Creative Arts 2018 Medicine Show highlighted the high standard of talent we have here at the College.

Our modern apprentice in digital marketing has just completed her qualification. In this blog, Shelagh McLachlan, Marketing and PR Manager reflects on the success of Ayrshire College’s first modern apprentice.