Renfrewshire

classvr East Renfrewshire Council has become the first local authority in the UK to invest in a class set of virtual reality headsets for every school in the area. More than 900 ClassVR headsets, a virtual and augmented reality set designed specifically for schools, are being rolled out across the authority and ...

A Scottish council says it has become the first local authority in the UK to invest in virtual reality headsets for every school in its area. East Renfrewshire Council has invested £250,000 in more than 900 ClassVR devices. It said the headsets designed by Avantis would provide a virtual and augmented reality ...

An announcement that Renfrewshire Law Centre will close at the end of this month has prompted concerns about who will provide “vital front-line services” in its absence. A statement on the centre's website explains that it is currently contacting clients with ongoing matters which are not near their ...

Leaders in education, local government and business are urging employers across Renfrewshire to have their say in the West of Scotland Skills Survey before it closes on Friday 23rd March. Scotland's largest college kicked off 2018 by launching the West of Scotland Skills Survey. The first of its kind to be ...

Nearly £54 million is to be invested in housing across Renfrewshire over the next three years under the local authority's new budget plans. New build homes, regeneration and maintenance of existing council homes will form the key focus of Renfrewshire Council's Housing Capital Investment Plan 2018/19 ...

Because of the number of bins which have been unable to be collected because of the severe weather, the local authority are unable to add them into the following days schedules - as would be normal procedure. These bins will be collected at the next collection date for that colour of bin. Refrewshire ...

As the Beast from the East hit Renfrewshire this week, the heavy snow lead to several disruptions across the central belt, including the closure of every school. Things are slowly beginning to return to normal, with train services back up and running and snow beginning to thaw in many areas. Several local ...

A spokesman for McGills buses said all of its around 40 services in Renfrewshire were off the road. “We are reviewing the situation every hour,” the spokesman said. Hundreds of students at UWS and West College Scotland had the day off classes, with the same scenario likely today. A UWS spokesman ...

Renfrewshire Council posted a statement on Twitter that states: "The current amber weather warning for Renfrewhsire has been extended until 10am on Friday, March 2 and conditions will remain very challenging into tomorrow. "As a result we have decided to keep all Renfrewshire schools and nurseries ...

Renfrewshire's employability programmes have been rated the best performing in Scotland in a new national report benchmarking the performance of all Scottish Councils. The latest Local Government Benchmarking Framework Indicator Profile ranks the Council's jobs and training programme as No.1 ...