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As well as the valuable information contained on this website we want you to have as much information on studying, funding, life in the Highlands & Islands and many other issues that are important to students and potential students of all types. We hope the following links will be useful:
Afasic works for children and young people with speech and language impairments, aiming for their inclusion in society and supporting their parents and carers.
Get the current news in Scotland, 24 hours a day.
Careers Scotland is Scotland’s national agency providing a range of services to assist individuals of all ages to make well-informed and realistic career decisions.
The website for Eden Court Theatre, the biggest theatre in the Highlands and Islands.
English Language Support from the BBC World Service website. Practise your English with the BBC - grammar and vocabulary, Business English, quizzes, News English...
Scotland's major train operator operates around 2000 services daily on suburban routes round Glasgow and Edinburgh; interurban routes linking Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Inverness; and rural routes in Dumfries and Galloway, the West and North Highlands.
Google UK
The website for The Highland Council. The Highland Council delivers a wide range of essential services to 213,590 people spread across 25,464 sq km – the largest area of any of Scotland’s 32 councils.
Website for the Highland News (incorporating the North Star and Lochaber News), the biggest selling weekly newspaper in the Highlands. It also publishes two free titles: the Inverness and Nairn Herald and the Ross-shire Herald.
Highlands & Islands Arts Website
Highlands & Islands Arts Ltd (HI-Arts) is an independent company limited by guarantee with charitable status, established in 1990 to promote and develop the arts in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
Highlands and Islands Airports Limited
HIAL manage and maintain the ten airports throughout the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, providing vital social, business and welfare links to the people who live there.
Highlands and Islands Enterprise
The task of the Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) network is to unlock potential and help create a strong, diverse and sustainable economy where quality of life is matched by quality of opportunity.
Inverness Chamber of Commerce is the largest Highland-based business organisation, helping its members grow and prosper by being at the forefront of the area's economic development. We are dedicated to serving the Inverness city region, and our members look to us for strong representation and lobbying, networking opportunities, a full programme of events and meetings, training and personal development, and to keep them informed about what's going on.
A simple, straightforward way of finding local suppliers of goods and services in your area.
Inverness City information site
Inverness, Scotland - the Millennium City. Check out this non-commercial Inverness site - with it's many links for those interested in the City of Inverness and surrounding area (Loch Ness, Culloden and beyond).
Website for the Inverness Courier, the twice weekly newspaper (Tuesdays and Fridays) published by Scottish Provincial Press.
Locate to the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey area
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey represents one of the fastest growing areas in the UK, with many new businesses and people attracted here each year. To aid those wanting to move to the area, we have created this 'location assistant'.
MFR is the commercial radio station in the Highlands. MFR and Moray Firth Radio offers a wide ranging list of programmes. The radio station also operates a scheme called Moray Firth Media Trust set up to deliver training in radio broadcasting to unemployed people within the Highlands.
Britain's oldest daily newspaper and the country's largest regional morning newspaper website.
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. The Agency's mission is to safeguard the public interest in sound standards of higher education qualifications and to encourage continuous improvement in the management of the quality of higher education.
The website for the biggest selling weekly newspaper in Ross-shire.
The website of The Scottish Parliament.
Run Deep, an award-winning supplier of powerful business solutions on the web.
Scottish Citylink offers reliable bus and coach travel to towns and cities across Scotland including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, Stirling, Perth, Inverness, Aviemore, Thurso, Ullapool, Oban, Campbeltown, Lochgilphead, Fort William, Portree, Glencoe, Dunfermline, Dumfries, East Kilbride and Glasgow Airport.
Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework
The SCQF website intends to help learners and providers of learning understand how different learning programmes relate to each other.
The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) distributes £1.5 billion in funding for teaching and learning, research and other activities in Scotland's colleges and universities. Established in 2005, the Council provides a strategic overview of tertiary education in Scotland to help secure a more coherent system of high-quality learning, teaching and research.
Scottish Further Education Unit
SFEU helps Scotland's FE colleges tackle their most challenging operational and developmental issues. Seeking to raise standards of practice in the Further Education sector in Scotland.
Scottish Qualifications Authority
The SQA is the national body in Scotland responsible for the development, accreditation, assessment, and certification of qualifications other than degrees.
The Business Agenda is an informal partnership of organisations, companies and agencies with a common interest in furthering professional development amongst the business community in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. www.thebusinessagenda.com is a diary of seminars, training and other events organised by members and open to all to attend. For more information on individual members go to our members page.
UHI Millennium Institute is a partnership of colleges and research institutes working together to form a univeristy of the Highlands & Islands. Designated as a higher education institute in April 2001, the process of giving it its own degree awarding powers has been achieved and it is now seeking University title.
Universities and Colleges Admissions Services
Applicants to full-time undergraduate courses, such as HNC/CertHE, HND/DipHE, BA, BSc, should apply through UCAS.
The website for the West Highland Free Press, published weekly and available extensively in the Highlands and Islands and in towns and cities across Scotland each Thursday.
