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Congratulations to our new officer team!

9th Mar
 After a long, hard week of campaigning, we're very pleased to announce the results of the 2018 ECSA Full-time Officer Elections!Firstly, a thanks to the hundreds of students who took the time to vote - your choice has given the Students'...

ECSA Elections 2018: Meet the Candidates!

4th Mar
 Voting has now closed for this year's ECSA ElectionsBelow is a list of all the candidates for the 3 Full-Time Officer Positions. Click on a name to find out more about them or go straight to the voting page to cast your vote. We use a voting...
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Edinburgh College Fairtrade Survey

19th Feb
 Have you heard of Fairtrade? Do you think it’s important?  We would like to get your opinions on this topic. Help us by completing this short survey (<5 minutes) and you can be entered into a prize draw.  The prize draw is only...

Stories of Recovery

16th Feb
 We're hosting a Stories of Recovery Event!The event is all about coming along to hear students stories of their own experiences of mental health and finding out the key steps to their recovery! It's linked into the work we've...

Feminism 101 Workshops

14th Feb
 We are holding four events across all of our campuses which will involve the Women's Officer at NUS coming in to deliver a presentation on the barriers women face in society. There will be a chance for some group work during the workshop, so you...

Your Voice, Your Vote: Fancy running ECSA?

29th Jan
 The Students' Association is run by a team of three full-time student officers who work together with our volunteer executive officers. Once elected, the Full-Time Officers take a year out from their studies to work at ECSA on a full-time basis,...

Welcome back to College

22nd Jan
 Welcome back from the holidays folks, and from what has been a busy and exciting semester 1. As we look forward to an even more exciting semester 2 with exams and all, we welcome all the fresh faced January starts who are beginning their journey...

Here's our top 5 wins so far...

18th Dec
 1. Massive increase in the number of Class RepsClass Reps are key to improving the college. They're the people who know exactly what it's like to be on your course, so a key part of our year is recruiting and training new Class Reps. We spend...

Sports Events Coming Up!

16th Nov
 We have a a few sporting activities taking place over the next week at all of our campuses.Table Tennis will be being played at Milton Road and Sighthill campuses, while out at Midlothian, we have our new Football Table.Meanwhile at Granton, our...

Relaxation Station Tips

16th Nov
 Opportunity for students to share positive thoughts surrounding mental health!Following on from us launching the relaxation station campaign across all four of our campuses which looked at promoting a positive outlook for mental health to...

Bullying? Be Smart, Don't Start!

9th Nov
 What's it all about?We are launching the Bullying? Be Smart, Don't Start campaign across all four of our campuses over the space of 2 weeks. It's all about providing you as students with key information on bullying and how to stop, report and...

Women's Group

27th Oct
 We are hosting Women's group meetings across the college starting the 15th January!Come along and join us between Monday 15th January to Thursday 18th January where we are holding events across all four of our campuseses, which will...

Creative Industries Class Rep Meeting

27th Oct
 A MESSAGE FROM THE COLLEGE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES TEAMDear Creative Industries Class Reps,You are invited to a meeting this Friday to introduce you to the GLOW Festival which we run across Creative Industries at the end of every year, as well as...

Relaxation Station

23rd Oct
 What's it all about?Right across all four of our campuses, we are launching the relaxation station campaign which is looking to promote a positive outook of mental health to all students! The purpose of the campaign is to decrease high stress...

Sports & Activities at Granton!

16th Oct
 We have some exciting news regarding up & coming Sports Events and Activities within Edinburgh College.Basketball Training For AllWe have basketball open training session for everyone who wishes to be involved.This is a great chance to learn...