Fife College

A number of Fifers currently looking for work have attended a Construction Academy at Fife College.

Fife College’s new campus in Dunfermline is on course to meet Scottish Government carbon targets for its use of a unique steel/timber construction, according to its structural engineer.

Fife College principal Jim Metcalfe welcomed the new education minister Graeme Dey MSP to the site of the new Dunfermline Campus to check progress of the construction project.

Euan Forsyth, a roofing apprentice from Fife, has won the prestigious BMI Apprentice of the Year competition 2023.

A collaboration between four Scottish colleges and industry partners will deliver a new course to respond to the need to expand the civil engineering workforce to build the infrastructure projects set by the Scottish Government. An innovative partnership approach has developed the first CECA Scotlan

One of Taylor Wimpey East Scotland's youngest apprentice painters, Shinnade Bain, beat off stiff competition from students across Scotland to collect her first industry recognition this month aged just 17 years old. Entered for the competition by her course leaders at Fife College, the budding appre

A ‘topping out’ ceremony took place last week at Dunfermline Learning Campus, marking a major milestone for the project. Pupils helped cabinet secretary for education and skills, Jenny Gilruth and councillors lay a cement plinth commemorating the school building reaching its highest poin

Fife College's construction partner Balfour Beatty is to offer over 200 weeks of work for local apprentices on the build phase of its new Dunfermline Campus.

Balfour Beatty has been awarded a c.£90 million contract by Fife College for the design and construction of a new learning campus in Dunfermline.

An innovative and strong partnership approach to delivering the first Modern Apprenticeship (MA) in Building Standards is helping to address a major skills shortage in Building Standards across Scotland. ESP has worked with Local Authority Building Standards Scotland (LABSS), Scottish Government, UH

CR Smith and Fife College have joined forces to run a pioneering fast-track training programme for would-be joiners for a second successive year.  Specifically designed to help more people wanting to enter the joinery profession, the successful collaboration last year led to five trainees secur

The creation of Dunfermline Learning Campus has taken another step forward as BAM Construction begins work on the new schools. The main contractor started work creating the new campus in September 2021. This initial phase of work is nearing completion and the site is now ready for the next phase. Th

Fife College student Monika Cook has started a new career with a local construction company after studying an HND in Quantity Surveying. Monika, from Kirkcaldy, is due to complete her HND in June but has already secured a quantity surveying traineeship with local firm Napier CS Ltd.

Fife Council leaders David Alexander and David Ross were joined by pupils, project contractors and council officers yesterday to mark the beginning of construction work at the new Dunfermline Learning Campus.

Fife College and Fife Council Economic Development are launching a major new initiative that develops opportunities for small and medium-sized construction businesses as they recover, sustain and seek ways of working more efficiently, following the major challenges of COVID-19 and exiting the EU.