Where could new skills take you?
Ayrshire College offers a range of flexible short courses designed to help you develop new skills and support your career development.
Our short courses can help you:
- Develop new skills and build your confidence
- Prepare for progressing into a supervisory, team leader or management role
- Strengthen your professional and transferable skills
- Develop sector-specific skills to progress in your current career
- Move into higher-paid employment.
Flexible delivery
We know it can be challenging finding time to focus on yourself, so our short courses are scheduled frequently and flexibly so you can find a time and location that works for you.
- In-person at our Ayrshire campuses (Ayr, Kilmarnock, and Kilwinning)
- Online from the comfort of your home or work
- Through the day
- In the evening
- Saturday mornings.
Funding may be available
If you are eligible, the *Training Access Fund could cover the cost of your training. Try our quick assessment tool to see if you are eligible.
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*Training Access Fund (TAF) Needs
The Training Access Fund aims to support eligible parents/carers with up to £500 of training at their local college to support career progression and increase earning potential.
To meet the Fund eligibility requirements, individuals must:
- live in Scotland full-time, including those with refugee status or asylum seekers
- have an individual income below £33k
- be a parent/carer with responsibility for at least one child at home aged under 18.
Applicants will be required to self-declare eligibility at the application stage.
Exclusions: this funding is not available to full-time students or Apprentices.
Contact Us
Can’t find the short course you need? Questions about funding? Need help with your application? Email us or call 01292 261469
