Orkney College in Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom | College

Welcome to Orkney College UHI, Kirkwall, Orkney, United Kingdom.  Orkney College and the UHI Education, training and lifelong learning opportunities for everyone

As a constituent College of the UHI Millennium Institute, we are now able to deliver a wide range of higher education, degree and postgraduate learning options in addition to the traditional base of further education.  If you would like to receive a prospectus, please phone us on 01856 569000. We look forward to hearing from you.

Orkney College is committed to quality and opportunity and is actively involved in the UHI Millennium Institute.  Our courses are geared towards providing students of all ages with a full range of qualifications from Scottish Vocational Qualifications, Scottish Group Awards (Higher Still) through Higher National Certificate and Diploma to Degree and postgraduate Degree Level. Individuals can also undertake Short Courses and Evening Classes as well as benefiting from a very varied selection of modules available through our Open Learning Centre Network with its Mainland and Outer Isles Centres.

The College serves the Orkney community, which is rural and predominantly agricultural. The local economy has traditionally depended on agriculture and fishing. Both industries have shown some decline in recent years with tourism, hospitality and service industries becoming the main areas of economic activity and growth. The College has strong links with agriculture and with the Orkney Islands Council’s (OIC) farm of Weyland, which once belonged to the then North of Scotland College of Agriculture. It now provides the foundation for the Agronomy Institute.  The main campus is a new purpose-built site  located on a hill on the outskirts of Kirkwall. The College is one of very few non-incorporated Colleges in Scotland and is the responsibility of the OIC, which has devolved considerable powers, including management, funding and staffing to the College Management Council (CMC).