Report highlights success of Highland and Islands colleges

A new report has revealed that 67.5% of full-time students successfully completed their studies at Âé¶¹ÖÐÎÄÓ³»­´«Ã½ and Islands colleges in the 2016 to 2017 academic year. This is higher than the national average figure which shows that 65.3% of students passed further education courses at Scottish colleges in the period.

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Dr Michael Foxley

The statistics were published in the Scottish Funding Council’s college performance indicators report last month. The number of part-time students who successfully completed their courses at Âé¶¹ÖÐÎÄÓ³»­´«Ã½ and Islands colleges was also found to be higher than average.
 
The Âé¶¹ÖÐÎÄÓ³»­´«Ã½ and Islands further education region consists of North Highland College Âé¶¹ÖÐÎÄÓ³»­´«Ã½, Orkney College Âé¶¹ÖÐÎÄÓ³»­´«Ã½, Shetland College Âé¶¹ÖÐÎÄÓ³»­´«Ã½, Argyll College Âé¶¹ÖÐÎÄÓ³»­´«Ã½, West Highland College Âé¶¹ÖÐÎÄÓ³»­´«Ã½, Lews Castle College Âé¶¹ÖÐÎÄÓ³»­´«Ã½, Moray College Âé¶¹ÖÐÎÄÓ³»­´«Ã½, Inverness College Âé¶¹ÖÐÎÄÓ³»­´«Ã½ and Perth College Âé¶¹ÖÐÎÄÓ³»­´«Ã½. The University of the Âé¶¹ÖÐÎÄÓ³»­´«Ã½ and Islands Court, through the Further Education Regional Board, is accountable for all college and university-level education in the Âé¶¹ÖÐÎÄÓ³»­´«Ã½ and Islands.

Dr Michael Foxley, chair of the Highland and Islands Further Education Regional Board, welcomed the report’s findings saying: “Once again, further education students in the University of the Âé¶¹ÖÐÎÄÓ³»­´«Ã½ and Islands colleges have performed well above average. This is due to the hard work by our lecturers and support staff as well as by the students themselves. These students can now access much better employment opportunities or carry on to higher education.â€
 
The Scottish Funding Council’s College Performance Indicators 2016-17 statistical publication is available at: