Celebrating the achievements of Passport and Transition students.

Edinburgh man is adult learner of the year after overcoming offending past

John Craigen has recently been accepted on to the BA (Hons) Television course at Edinburgh Napier University. This is the latest in a long line of successes for John….

On Monday 29th March at the Hawick Learning Campus, Borders College Jayne Gracie, Head of Department for Care and General Education, and Bill Sim, Workforce Planning and Development Manager for Social Work Services at Scottish Borders Council, presented ten students with College Certificates to celebrate their completion of the thirteenth Prepare to Care course.
This innovative [...]

Access to Industry Passport Project wins Kids Count Directors Award at House of Commons Award Ceremony

On Wednesday 4th November Passport’s new Cowgate office was buzzing with the sound of 45 students meeting with 10 different employment, college and training providers.
 The students we able to find out about a variety of opportunities including jobs with Brae Scotland, the Army and NHS Scotland, training courses in construction and care work with Capital [...]

 
On Tuesday 27th October, Access to Industry was recognised at an event to showcase Edinburgh’s Joined Up For Jobs Partnership which is part of the Scottish Government’s Cities Strategy Pathfinders.  The Joined Up For Jobs Partnership sees employability organisations working together to help those with significant barriers to employment move into sustained jobs. The partnership [...]

Access to Industry student – Alastair Kirkhope – was recognised as the Barclays Bank Achiever of the Year at a prestigious award ceremony hosted by Crisis on 19 October 2009 at Barclays HQ in Canary Wharf London.
Alastair, who had suffered from alcohol addiction and been homeless in Edinburgh, had been a recipient of a Crisis [...]

Access to Industry students proved there are positive opportunities to be gained after moving on from care, prison, substance use and homelessness, when they were visited by Jonathan Shaw MP, Minister for Disabilities on Friday 25 September 2009 in Edinburgh.
Many of the students on the programme suffer from mental health issues including depression and anxiety [...]

Students with troubled past net SQA boost