Education

​The recommendation by NatureScot officials to refuse a licence for this year’s guga hunt was rubber-stamped by the quango’s board at a special on-line meeting, with board members dialling in from around the country and beyond.

​A senior delegation from the Stornoway campus of UHI North, West and Hebrides have returned from a visit to South Africa having established a formal partnership with a Durban-based college to advise on training and education in the field of hydrogen power.

​E-sgoil is one of the great successes to emanate from the Western Isles in recent years and Angus Maclennan, who has been awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours list, was at its helm from the outset until he retired in 2022. What he once described as “a local solution to a local problem” has become a major component of Scottish education.