Highland course pegs the student intake

TWENTY-six f ish farm workers have been trained in the last two years under a scheme backed by the Highland and Island Development Board.

After a f irst-year intake of 12 completed training in 1978, a further 14 students graduated on 1 June and, so far, all but four have found jobs in the industry.

Mr Aldridge, co-ordinator of the training course, believes that jobs prospects for his latest crop of students would have been considerably better had the past winter not been so harsh and protracted.

On the presentation made by Marine Harvest to Mr Chris Higginson, the top student in the course just completed at Inverness, Mr Aldridge said: ‘We regard this as a very welcome vote of confidence from one of the country’s biggest fish farming concerns.’