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5 SUMMER 2015 Growing the Economy and Skills LOCAL FIRM SECURES CONTRACT AT AYRSHIRE COLLEGE Major work is to be carried out at Ayrshire College’s Ayr Campus by local firm McLaughlin Construction over the next five months to provide brand new learning and social spaces for students. Student-facing services will be redeveloped to ensure there is a consistent, customer facing model across all of the College’s three main campuses in Ayr, Kilmarnock and Kilwinning. All essential student support services will be brought together to make them more accessible for students. Students will also benefit from a new refectory with new kitchen facilities. Ten tenders were received by the College and McLaughlin Construction, an Irvine based company, was awarded the contract worth £1,461,518. Meanwhile, W H Kirkwood will be carrying out the work at the Kilwinning campus. They are a building and public works contractor from Greenock. “Student-facing services will be redeveloped to ensure there is a consistent, customer facing model.” AYRSHIRE COLLEGE APPRENTICES STEP UP TO THE PLATE Ayrshire College works in partnership with Trump Turnberry to train modern apprentices in Hospitality at both SVQ Level 2 and 3 in the workplace. Working to meet the needs of the world famous resort’s business, the College devised the flexible training solution to allow their apprentices to be based solely at the resort, with regular workplace assessments being facilitated by the College. A huge audience turned up to watch Ayrshire College modern apprentices compete at the prestigious ScotHot 2015 Awards held in Glasgow. ScotHot is Scotland’s biggest hospitality, tourism and food and drink show with competitors from all over the country. Paul Tyrrell, Scott Jackett, Leigh McGill, Steven Walker, Robert McCurdie, Charley Dedman, Andrew Mackay and Ruaidhri Patterson all took part.