MULTIPLY YOUR SKILLS
Join one of our FREE short courses and see your skills soar. We can support you to improve your literacy and numeracy, build your budgeting and finance skills, or develop essential life skills.
What can you study?
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Positive about numbers
Do you want to be able to help your children with their schoolwork and improve your own numeracy?
Positive about Numbers will give you a solid grounding in numeracy and a Level 4 or 5 Mathematics qualification.
An experienced lecturer will deliver sessions either online or join in at one of our welcoming, local centres and get support from centre staff. We’ve designed our sessions to be helpful, practical, and fun. Classes are two and a half hours a week for 10 weeks.
Start dates: Evening class - 15 January 2024. Day class -16 January 2024.
Positive about money
Do you want to develop new numeracy skills for everyday life, like budgeting and managing money?
Positive about money will help you:
- understand the costs involved with borrowing money;
- consider long-term financial planning; and
- look at different ways of buying goods and compare different deals.
An experienced lecturer will deliver our practical and fun sessions either online or join in at one of our welcoming, local centres, and get support from our centre staff. Classes are two and a half hours a week for 10 weeks.
Start date: TBC. Register your interest now.
Confident about communications
Help your children with their schoolwork, improve your own literacy skills and become more confident in how you communicate with our new 10-week programme.
You’ll get a solid grounding in basic literacy and a Level 3, 4 or 5 Communication qualification, covering Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening. Improving skills could lead to extra qualifications and a better job.
An experienced lecturer will deliver sessions that are designed to be useful, practical, and fun so that everyone gets as much benefit as possible from the learning.
Start date: 15 January 2024.
Digital Skills for Beginners
Starting 30 January 2024
Over eight weeks, you will develop digital life skills and make the most of your smart devices. Get an introduction to online shopping, using email and how to stay safely in touch with friends and family online. We may also cover topics such as booking transport online, downloading and using apps and using different social media messaging apps.
You don't need any experience and classes will be delivered at the UHI Argyll Arran Centre.
Routes to Education and Employment
Starting in January 2024 for 17 weeks, part-time.
The course is aimed at learners who want to prepare for work. You’ll cover a range of useful subjects such computer basics and personal wellbeing to ensure you are ready for work and understand how best to apply and prepare for interview. You will also develop soft skills that will help make the transition to work or self-employment a lot easier.
Work-based training
The Multiply Programme is also funding some work-based training, including:
- Elementary Food Hygiene
- Intermediate Food Hygiene
- Scottish Certificate for Personal Licence Holders
For more information on courses available and to book your place, contact the Arran Centre:
Tel: 01770 600152
These courses are fully funded through North Ayrshire Council to deliver the UK Government’s Multiply project as part of the Shared Prosperity Fund.
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