Portobello High School Skills Development Scotland Presentation February 2016 Careers Advisors Martin Brynes : Tel No: or ; Ruth Addo: Tel No: or ; Days in school: Martin :Monday – Thursday; Ruth: Mondays; Lunch time Drop-ins: Monday and Thursday - When the Library Opens. Also based at the SDS Careers Centre at Shandwick Place in the West End.
Useful Careers Information Sites: MyWorldofWork is the Skills Development Scotland website, it provides information for anyone looking at their future career paths. The website below also provides further information on course choice. tCareerList/ tCareerList/
College: There are lots of colleges in Scotland, some of the colleges pupils at Portobello may consider are: Edinburghcollege.ac.uk – Edinburgh College West-Lothian.ac.uk – West Lothian College Oatridge.ac.uk – SRUC Agricultural College BordersCollege.ac.uk – Borders College ForthValley.ac.uk – Forth Valley College
University: For general information on Universities two websites to visit are: Edinburgh universities are listed below: Edinburgh University – ed.ac.uk Queen Margaret University – qmu.ac.uk Edinburgh Napier University – napier.ac.uk Heriot Watt University – hw.ac.uk 1.Ucas.com 2.TheCompleteUniversityGuide.co.uk
Modern Apprenticeships Apprenticeships.scot TheEdinburghGuarantee.org ApprenticeshipsinScotland.com MyWorldofWork.co.uk/getting-job/modern- apprenticeships myjobscotland.gov.uk Mappit.org.uk
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