The Highland Council has unanimously supported reducing the minimum age for voting in all elections to 16. The Council is also backing Highland Youth Voice’s “Votes[AT]16” campaign which calls for 16 and 17 year olds to get the vote.
The public is being urged to comment on The Highland Council’s first green transport strategy. The deadline for responses is 30 April.
It is the opportunity to forge a career somewhere unique. Skills Development Scotland, the national skills body supporting the people and businesses of Scotland, is holding an exciting careers event in Duthac Centre, Tain.
Highlands & Islands Food & Drink: A cause for celebration as 2014 awards open for entry. Closing Date for entries - Wednesday, 23rd April 2014 Organisers of the Highlands & Islands Food & Drink Awards (HIFDA) are starting 2014 on an upbeat and positive note as they prepare to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the prestigious awards.
Up to 25 job opportunities will be available to young Gaels over the summer months as a result of a longstanding partnership between Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and Comunn na Gàidhlig (CnaG). The job opportunities will be available through the Students Summer Placement Scheme, which offers Gaelic-speaking students placements with businesses and organisations where Gaelic is the language of the workplace.
The initial success of an advertising campaign to recruit supply teachers for Highland Council schools has resulted in the local authority running a second recruitment campaign. Members of the Council’s Adult and Children’s Services committee were today (19 February) informed that a recruitment campaign using advertorials in local and national newspapers in December 2013 attracted expressions of interest from 52 teachers.
Highland parents and families are to benefit from the introduction of 600 hours funded early learning and childcare from August this year. The Highland Council’s Adult and Children’s Services Committee have approved a suite of measures to enable the Council’s delivery of 600 hours on early learning and childcare by August 2014.
In a speech to the Scottish Parliament , Highlands & Islands Regional MSP, David Stewart highlighted the importance of EU funding to the economic and cultural development of the Highlands and Islands. “European funding is not a paternalistic sop from Eurocrats:, said Mr Stewart, “but a crucial economic tool.
Issued by NHS Highland The Health Protection Team at NHS Highland is working with Highland Council Education Service following the recent confirmation of a case of Tuberculosis (TB) in a child who attends the nursery at Helmsdale Primary School, Sutherland. The affected child did not catch the infection at school and remains well.
Scientists from Thursos Environmental Research Institute are reaching out to the art community in Caithness. Artists and designers of all disciplines are being given the opportunity to display their work and interact with the scientific community at a forthcoming conference in Thurso dedicated to research in the Flow Country.
Police Scotland Highland and Islands Division is currently recruiting new Police Constables and Special Police Constables and are hosting a Facebook chat this week to answer any questions people have on the subject. The chat event will take place virtually on the Police Scotland Highland and Islands Divisonal Facebook page on Thursday 30 January 2014 between 18:00 and 20:00 hours to discuss the topic of Police Officer recruitment with Chief Superintendent Julian Innes.
North (Scottish Labour) MSP, Rhoda Grant is calling on voters across the Highlands and Islands to get involved in National Voter Registration Day (NVRD). Wednesday 5th February 2014 will see people right across Great Britain encouraging others to register to vote, in the first day of its kind in the U.K.
Local food and drink producers and retailers are being invited to three events at the start of February in Lochinver, Dingwall and Grantown on Spey to explore and discuss future opportunities for closer collaboration. The events, which take place in Lochinver and Dingwall on Tuesday 4 February and Grantown on Thursday 6 February, are the final ones in a series of local meetings that have taken place across the Highlands organised by the Think Local project which aims to facilitate constructive discussion about forging closer partnerships in the local food and drink sector.
2 Day Crofting Course in Golspie next month. This course is ideal for aspiring, new and existing crofters and will get you up to speed with all things croft related from CAP reform to animal welfare, diversification and much more...
Hi Scot Credit Union chairman and manager today gave a presentation to councillors of the Finance Housing and Resouce committee of Highland counmcil at their meeting in Inverness. The notes of the presentation are in file Hi-Scot Presentation Slides and the' recording of the presentation and the following debate can be seeonline a thte highland council web site for 12 months at http://www.highland.public-i.tv/core/ It may be day unil the recording is available.
The increase in the average weekly rent charged by The Highland Council to its 13,500 council house tenants is being contained to 2%. The rent will rise from 68.99 to 70.37, an increase of 1.38.
The Highland Fisheries Local Action Group (FLAG) has recently been successful in securing further funding to support fishing communities in Highland under Axis 4 of the European Fisheries Fund. Funding of 198,642 is available to help communities where fishing requires supporting measures to build skills and knowledge and increase the capacity of local fishing communities and business networks through innovation, collaboration and diversification.
Unemployment rate at lowest in five years. Scotland is the best performing of the four nations of the UK in terms of unemployment and employment rates, according to new labour market figures which show for the period September to November 2013.
Survey to map Scotlands tenant farming sector. Surveys are being sent to every tenant farmer in Scotland as part of a major piece of research that will influence the future of Scottish farming.
Nominations open for Scottish Education Awards 2014 The search is underway for the Highlands brightest education stars as nominations open for the Scottish Education Awards 2014. People are being urged to nominate the teaching professionals and local schools that go the extra mile, for recognition at the national awards ceremony which honours the hard work and innovation happening in classrooms across Scotland.
