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Ayrshire College has successfully recorded its second live performance for BBC Radio Scotland’s BBC Introducing in Scotland programme, played on Friday 24 June 2022.
NANI was the second artist to be selected from a shortlist of candidates for this opportunity – after a successful session with Pretty Preachers Club in January 2022 - by the Ayrshire College team. The students then facilitated the recording session on the day, helping with showrunner duties, capturing video and sound, and taking photographs. The three-year partnership between Ayrshire College and BBC Radio Scotland is the first-of-its-kind, with Ayrshire College being Scotland’s first educational institution to collaborate with the BBC Music Introducing project. BBC Music Introducing has had enormous success in England, helping to launch the careers of Ed Sheeran and Rita Ora. Ayrshire College was identified by Creative & Cultural Skills as the perfect partner for BBC Music Introducing in Scotland. The recording sessions take place in the newly upgraded Studio G54 at the college’s Ayr Campus. Formalising the partnership has been a real coup for the college’s Music and Sound Production department, who have hit the ground running with two hugely successful recording sessions so far. The partnership provides students with meaningful work experience in the creative industries – networking and working with sector leaders, liaising with music artists, and gaining experience of recording live performances to broadcast quality. With support from lecturers David McAulay and John McBlain, five students were involved in NANI’s recording session. Jake Ballantyne (HNC Media Analysis & Production) was in charge of video capture, Callum Gibb (HND Sound Production) had a sound production role, Nicole Kilpatrick (HND Music) was the showrunner and artist liaison, while Ashley McKinlay and Anna Williams (both NC Photography) were the photographers on the day. NANI is an Edinburgh-based independent musician and producer. Her performance was broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland’s BBC Introducing in Scotland programme on Friday 24 June at 8pm and is available to listen to now on the BBC Sounds app and the BBC Radio Scotland website. Studio G54 has received significant funding from the Ayrshire College Foundation to help realise the department’s ambitions. Patrick Devlin, Curriculum Manager for Music and Sound Production at Ayrshire College, said: “As the sole FE partner in this unique collaboration for the whole of Scotland, we feel honoured and extremely privileged to be involved with CCSkills and BBC Scotland. “The Music and Sound Production department has been exceedingly fortunate to have been provided extra funding through the Ayrshire College Foundation’s Innovation Fund to the amount of £25,000, to enhance our already first-class recording facilities to be a truly world-class environment for music, sound production and media students to learn. “From the early days of 2000 when the college was one of only two institutions to have acquired AVID Learning Partner status for industry standard Pro Tools education programme integration, this partnership represents the pinnacle of that journey from that point 22 years ago. “As a department, we always strive to go further to provide a competitive advantage for our students and this opportunity to work with such a global media partner, doesn’t come around very often. We hope it is the start of a fruitful partnership for years to come.” Lindsay Gillies, Producer for BBC Introducing in Scotland, said: “From the BBC’s point of view, this is a great situation to be in. We work with Ayrshire College and find out what they want to do and establish that together. We make an editorial decision about the top five artists from our BBC Introducing Uploader, and then this allows the Ayrshire College team to make editorial decisions based on the top 5 we recommend. “This partnership provides the opportunity to record a professional sounding session and working to deadlines to have the recording session broadcast nationally. These are things that I do every day and it is great for the Ayrshire College team to get the chance to experience them as well.” Kathryn Willens, Head of Partnerships (Scotland) at Creative & Cultural Skills, said: “Creative work-based learning opportunities are a brilliant way to engage students, develop their work-ready skills and nurture Scotland’s future workforce. The team at Ayrshire College and the student cohort involved have really set the pace with this partnership with BBC Scotland / BBC Music Introducing. It’s always inspiring when efforts to connect the UK’s world-class creative employers with new waves of industry talent generate such excitement and energy. Well done to all involved, and can’t wait to listen in on the next Ayrshire College / BBC Scotland Introducing session!”
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Ashleigh (Scotland) Ltd has been announced as the main contractor for the construction of the Willie Mackie Skills Hub, with work beginning today (26 July) on the Ayrshire College building in Kilwinning.
Named after former Ayrshire College Chair Willie Mackie, the Hub will deliver a curriculum in Engineering, Construction and SMART Technologies for employers, primary schools, secondary schools and college students when it opens in August 2023. Willie Mackie stepped down from his Ayrshire College role earlier this year after completing the maximum possible tenure of a regional college Chair. Appointed in 2013, Willie played an important role in the creation of Ayrshire College, as Ayr College, Kilmarnock College and the North Ayrshire campuses of James Watt College merged. Willie attended the ground-breaking ceremony at the Dalry Road site alongside interim Ayrshire College Chair Fiona McQueen CBE, Ayrshire College Principal Carol Turnbull, and Ashleigh (Scotland) Ltd’s Managing Director David Smith and Commercial Director Euan Clark. The new purpose-built facility – designed by Hunter Thomson Architects - will provide first-class training for people in Ayrshire, in subjects identified as being key to the economic regeneration of North Ayrshire. The project has received financial contributions from Ayrshire College, North Ayrshire Council, the Magnox Socio Economic Panel, the Scottish Funding Council and the Ayrshire College Foundation. Carol Turnbull, Principal at Ayrshire College, said: “I am really pleased to see that construction work is starting on the site and that the contract has been awarded to a local Ayrshire company. The Willie Mackie Skills Hub will provide opportunities for our students to learn skills in inspiring new learning spaces where they will be able to connect with employers and partners to develop their learning through work placements and apprenticeships. These new training facilities will prepare current and future generations for the employment opportunities generated by the Ayrshire Growth Deal. Euan Clark, Commercial Director at Ashleigh (Scotland) Ltd, said: “We are delighted with the recent contract award for this fantastic new facility at the Ayrshire College’s Kilwinning Campus. We value our relationship with the College and its staff and have enjoyed working with their team in the past on an array of initiatives. “This will be our first building project with the College and we look forward to working with the team on the successful delivery of the Willie Mackie Skills Hub. We are extremely pleased to see Willie’s efforts and commitment to the College being recognised, it is truly deserved.” Rufus Logan, Scottish Funding Council Assistant Director Capital & Climate Change, said: “The Scottish Funding Council is delighted to be supporting this exciting project which will create state-of-the-art, fit for purpose learning and teaching facilities which will not only improve the student experience but will also respond to the region’s future skills needs. The collaborative nature of this project, with funding coming from both the private and public sector, is exactly the way in which we should be working and we commend all the partners for coming together to make this project a reality.” |
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