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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 about two months on that, visiting as many...

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 Tennis Scotland ambassador will be...

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 all sudents. We've now gathered your tips...

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 support others! We have members of Police...

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 involve us at ECSA giving you a brief...

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 some of the other activities that run...

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 levels that we are seeing across the...

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 new skills playing a great sport and...

Get involved and reduce the stigma of mental health

10th Oct It's your chance to be involved in tackling the stigma of mental health head on! We are trying to raise more awareness around mental health for trying to reduce the stigma of it! What we as your student association are wanting you to get involved in is to grab the opportunity to...

Our LGBT Group is kicking off

5th Oct We are hosting LGBT group meetings across the college starting the 6th November!Come along and join us between Monday 6th November to Thursday 9th November where we will be hosting events across all four of our campuses, which will involve NUS delivering talks to students on what...

Open Basketball Session For Men and Women

2nd Oct We are hosting an open Basketball training session for all students on Wednesday the 11th of October.This will be held in the Sports Hall on our Granton Campus, between 1:30 and 3:30pm and is open to everyone. Please complete the form at the bottom of this page to...

Try out for the men's Rugby team

8th Sep We're holding trials on Wednesday 13th September from 2pm to 4pm at the Marine Drive playing fields for those interested in playing for the Edinburgh College men's rugby team. Everyone welcome, but please register in advance so we know how many to expect.Bring suitable...
Students at the Scottish Student Sport Cup last year

Get involved in the College Sport Festival

7th Sep On Wednesday 20th September, Scottish Student Sport are hosting a College Sports Festival at Edinburgh College.  The event will take place at the Granton Campus Sports Hall and at Marine Drive (Playing Fields and World of Football).  We're keen to get as many as possible...

Guess which campus wakes up latest!

5th Sep Over the last couple of weeks, we've been meeting thousands of you at the college's Welcome Weeks, helping ensure everyone gets the best possible start at college.Working with the team of Learning Development Tutors, we've been helping new and continuing students get set...

Men's Football trials next week

28th Aug Next Wednesday afternoon (Wednesday 6th Sept), trials will be held at the new World of Football at Marine Drive for students interested in playing for the Edinburgh College Men's Football team.As we've already had a huge response from students interested in football...