West Lothian College hold employer engagement and the associated industry links in the highest regard. As a college we are continually striving to establish and develop these links in order to enrich the learning experience for our students whilst supporting local businesses and community groups in the process.
Employability Hub
We have set up a hub in the college for employers to come in for a chat to find out more about how we can help your business
Modern Apprenticeships
We will deliver fully funded training to your apprentices.
Vocational Qualifications
We deliver over 900 SVQs to organisations across Scotland every year.
Work Experience
Get access to the next generation of talent and your potential future workforce by providing work experience opportunities such as placements, industry visits, employer presentations, business competitions and mock interviews.
Foundation Apprenticeships
Your organisation can work with us to prepare a young person to understand your workplace by offering placement opportunities, class talks and visits.
STEM
Find out more about ways you can support the West Lothian Regional Hub Leaders in the STEM Agenda.
Recruitment
We can assist you in recruiting the right candidate for your business.
Continuous Professional Development
Your workforce can benefit from bespoke training courses. We can deliver a variety of short courses to meet your business needs.
Voluntary Organisations
We are the National leaders in volunteer training.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Work with us on an array of initiatives to develop Scotland’s Young Workforce and at the same time meet your CSR.
Workforce for the Future
Opportunities to mentor students. Get your staff work ready by providing employability skills and career development.
Flexible Workforce Development Fund (FWDF)
We can provide you with development and training opportunities to up skill and re skill your existing workforce.
FAQs
You may have some questions about how we can help you achieve your business goals - you can view our frequently asked questions & answers below.
Still have some questions? Please get in touch with us directly through the contact us button at the bottom of the page.
West Lothian College and West Lothian Leisure understands and appreciate the benefits of working in partnership to achieve shared objectives.
Last year two students joined Sky for a week’s work placement where they had a chance to spend time seeing everything from Technology Incident Management, to seeing the programming behind the systems used in the call centres and finally seeing these systems being used in the call centre.
WLC have worked with EWMG for a period of 18 months and in this time we have worked in a very collaborative way to deliver an array of activities for college students and their lecturers.
Contact our business team
We are always happy to discuss our work with employers or how we can work with you to grow your business, you can get in touch with a member of our team