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Glasgow Kelvin Sweeps The Board at BESA Event – Again!

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Glasgow Kelvin College apprentices have once again put in a very impressive performance at this year’s prestigious BESA Scotland Awards.

Winning three of the five categories and overall carrying home eight of the sixteen awards, the students have made their employers, and their building services tutors at College, very proud.

Third year Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Apprentice, Jonathon Lansdowne from Renfrew, was the winner in his category and went on to scoop the overall BESA Scottish Apprentice of the Year.  Jonathon works with TRS and his tutors are delighted with the progress he has made throughout his apprenticeship training with them.  A happy Jonathon is picture here with his Award and Allan Bolton, Electrical Manager with TRS Ltd (left) and Rab Fletcher, BESA Chair of Scotland Region (right).

Heating & Ventilation Fitter Apprentice of the Year Award winner, Ryan Kelly from Kilwinning is apprenticed to James Frew Ltd.

Dominic Downie of Troon, who works with South Ayrshire Council, was awarded Service & Maintenance Apprentice of the Year.

The other Glasgow Kelvin College students who received BESA awards were:

  • Connor Davidson of KB Refrigeration
  • Sam Caig of KB Refrigeration
  • Connor McGuire of FES
  • Connor Gowan of My Eco Solutions and,
  • Maigan McKenna of Mitie Technical

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has evolved throughout the years to reflect the growing needs of its members and to encompass all of the specialist services available within the built environment.

Each year it recognises emerging talent and skills in the sector through these prestigious awards at regional and, ultimately, UK national level.

The awards were kindly sponsored by Milwaukee, Nuaire, Weir & McQuiston Scotland Ltd, Taylor & Fraser Ltd, City of Glasgow College and Technical Retail Services Ltd.

Winners are automatically put forward to the National Awards which will be presented at a glittering ceremony in Park Plaza Hotel, London in November.

Glasgow Kelvin College is delighted to see its students honoured in this way and looks forward to continuing its strong partnership with BESA in Scotland.  These talented students are an inspiration and a testament to the skills and hard work of their tutors and the enthusiasm and commitment of their employers.

Congratulations go to everyone involved and fingers are crossed for the National event in November.

A Fantastic Few Weeks!

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As we head into the last couple of weeks of this academic year we have seen a flurry of activity.

End of year fundraising totals, trips out and extraordinary student performances, its quite something.

We have a very talented bunch of students at Glasgow Kelvin College.

ESOL Students Receive Their End Of Year Certificates. 


ESOL students from all campuses and community classes came to Springburn and East End today to receive their end of year certificates.

The ESOL staff would like to say a big thank you to all our students for their hard work, dedication and  willingness to take part in and  help out with events.   We particularly enjoyed the Halloween party organised by National 5 Stage 1!

We would like to wish you all well with your future endeavours and we look forward to seeing many of you again next session!

Fantastic Student Performances


This year has seen some fantastic performances from our students.

Most recently was the Dance Show on the 30th of May and a theatre performance of Legally Blonde on the 23rd of May.

Both shows were outstanding.

Here are a few pictures from each of these shows.

Fashion Fundraiser Total


GKC Fashion are delighted to announce that the total raised this year for SAMH is £2,817.

The department hosted a tea party which was attended by Chloe from the charity to receive the cheque.

Well done all!

Students Day at Inchailloch


ESOL National 5 Stage 1 students plus teachers George Gillen and Candy Rankin went on a visit to Inchailloch (Isle of the Cowled woman) in Loch Lomond. We took the college minibus to Balhama and then a short ferry ride. It was a beautiful summer’s day. We were especially lucky to have Candy with us who explained about the history of the island as she had visited it several times before. When we got to the beach we were greeted by a very unusual site – several Scotsmen in historical dress who were there as part of a corporate package. We loved having our photos taken with them.

The highlight was when we walked up to a special viewing point and the sight was idyllic.

GKC Singing Garden


As part of the development of GKC "Singing Garden", the construction students recently created a beautiful brick planter.

This will be used with the poly tunnel to grow various plants, veg and herbs for the Volunteer and Personal Achievement students in the next academic year.

ESOL Reading Ahead Challenge


National 3 ESOL Eastend Campus and West Campus completed the Reading Ahead Challenge for 2017- 2018.

They were challenged to read 6 books and complete book reviews and discuss what they had read. Once completed, we all celebrated and the students were awarded with a certificate from the Reading Agency.

Well done National 3!

Annual Student Exchange Visit, GKC, UWS and Don State Technical University


We were pleased to recently welcome our visitors from Don State Technical University, in Rostov on Don in Russia, for their leg of the annual exchange visit. The six Civil Engineering students will spend the first week of their 3 week stay taking part in site and cultural visits before moving to UWS Paisley for the second week and finally joining our 1st year HND Civil Engineering students on the Constructionarium project in Bathgate. At Constructionarium, the students will take part in a live build project including project meetings, planning meetings and actual site work where they will be split into teams and will construct a scaled down version of a Barcelona Tower, a bridge or even a wind turbine.

We were also delighted to welcome the three members of staff accompanying the students for the first part of the exchange visit - Svetlana Sheina, Galina Kravchenko and Ludmila Glebova.

In August five of our Civil Engineering students and two students from UWS will make the trip to Rostov to take part in the annual summer school along with students from Austria and, for the 1st time this year, Northern Ireland. The title of this year’s project is “Sustainable Development. Renewable Energy Sources and Green Technologies for the Reconstruction of the Educational Building”.

Craftex Winners


92 learners from Glasgow Kelvin College entered 13 categories at “Craftex”. There were 10 winning entries, including Valentina Boneva an HNC Jewellery learner who also won the “Deacon’s Award”. All winners received their awards at the Awards Ceremony in Trades House on 8th June.

Congratulations to staff and learners who participated in this event.

Our Glasgow Kelvin winners were:

Here are a couple of shots of two of our Winners.

Foundation Apprentice End Of Year Trip


This was our year 1 Foundation Apprentices in Creative and Digital Media on their end of year industry trip to STV studious at Pacific Quay.

A great day and thank you to STV for hosting us and showing the students the studios.

Congratulations To ……


Well done to Sabrina Mandulu a current 2nd Year Acting and Performance learner who recently appeared on STV news discussing Mental Health awareness and the power of music and performance.

Well done also to Reece Hayes who completed his HND Acting and Performance programme in 2016 who recently celebrated Prince Charles 70th birthday celebrations at Buckingham Palace.  Reece is a young ambassador who continuously volunteers time towards supporting the trusts work.

Another well done to Reece Hayes, 2nd year Actor who completed his HND Acting and Performance programme in 2016. Reece successfully delivered a presentation on mental health and not being judgemental at Ted x youth Glasgow

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Have a great weekend!

Students Embrace Diversity and Win Awards

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Two teams of Glasgow Kelvin students did exceptionally well in the Regional Embracing Diversity Awards competition by carrying off the first and second runner-up awards.

The Awards competition, organised and hosted by Glasgow Colleges’ Regional Board, encouraged students – individuals and teams - from across the Glasgow region to create an original project which promotes diversity and enables the colleges to further mainstream equalities in learning and teaching.  It was anticipated these projects would help to break down barriers and increase understanding of the diverse nature of learning and the wider Glasgow community.

The College’s own HN Acting & Performance students carried off the ‘Commended’ award for their recent groundbreaking script for their diversity play, ‘This Restless Life’.

Receiving the ‘Highly Commended’ Award were the very talented HN Fashion students for their partnership with the fabulous ‘Radiant and Brighter’ project, producing a wall-hanging for the ‘Scotland is Changing’ conference earlier this session.

The HN Fashion & Manufacture students teamed up with community organisation, Radiant & Brighter, to bring together individuals from many cultural and ethnic backgrounds to work on creating a piece which challenges social barriers and cultural exclusion in the community.

Each individual hand is different and personalised with something which represents the contributor.  A very powerful piece of artwork, it displays how working together can help to achieve remarkable results.

The overall winner on the day was City of Glasgow College for their HN Healthcare team’s ‘Boobs, Baps and Mammograms’ project which highlighted healthcare issues for women.

GCRB Chair, Janie McCusker, said;

“I’d like to congratulate everyone who entered this competition.  Everyone who has thought about diversity, what it means, what it adds to life – and then has taken the time to express those thoughts through their learning and work – has developed personally in a way that will benefit all those around you.

Glasgow is a gloriously diverse city.  That diversity contributes to every aspect of its social, cultural and economic success.  However you identify, you’ve all made a contribution to a better future.”

Commenting on the success of all the students across the region, Principal of Glasgow Kelvin College, Alan Sherry, said;

“We are delighted and very proud of all the students whose hard work has been recognised by GCRB, especially our HN Fashion students and HN Acting and Performance students whose work has been singled out.

Their excellent diversity projects enshrine the very best aspects of the College’s inclusive approach and I am extremely impressed by their clear understanding and sensitivity to issues around equality and diversity.  Their work is a real celebration of difference and our congratulations go to them and the skilled staff who supported them.”

ESOL Students Receive Their End Of Year Certificates. 

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ESOL students from all campuses and community classes came to Springburn and East End today to receive their end of year certificates.

The ESOL staff would like to say a big thank you to all our students for their hard work, dedication and  willingness to take part in and  help out with events.   We particularly enjoyed the Halloween party organised by National 5 Stage 1!

We would like to wish you all well with your future endeavours and we look forward to seeing many of you again next session!

Fantastic Student Performances

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This year has seen some fantastic performances from our students.

Most recently was the Dance Show on the 30th of May and a theatre performance of Legally Blonde on the 23rd of May.

Both shows were outstanding.

Here are a few pictures from each of these shows.