Short Courses

Our short courses are aimed at getting you up to speed in areas such as Fish Health or Workboats.

Short Courses are available to individuals and businesses and delivery can be in-person or online.

Check out our list of Aquaculture Short Courses and register today. 

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Vocational courses (work-based apprenticeships)

Our apprenticeships in Aquaculture take 1-2 years to complete, with on-site training with your employer. 

The local college provides support and online study.  College assessors carry out assessments in the workplace. 

Aquaculture apprenticeships are designed to suit the job role and experience level: 

• New or less experienced aquaculture staff (Level 2, SCQF-5)
• More experienced aquaculture staff (Level 3, SCQF-7)
• Managers and experienced senior aquaculture staff (Level 4 SCQF-9) 

Contact your nearest local UHI college for more information

• UHI Shetland
• UHI North, West and Hebrides
• UHI Argyll

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College and University Qualifications

• Aquaculture Management CPD (Continuing Professional Development)

is for experienced aquaculture staff looking to progress into management roles or anyone with professional interest in the industry.  Study takes less than a year, is fully online and covers a range of modules (at SCQF-8 = Higher National Diploma).

• BSc (Hons) Marine Science course (4-years)

includes aquaculture, fisheries, ecology, marine environmental impact assessment, ocean science and management.  Special features include opportunities to exit with Arctic Studies, Marine Biology or Oceanography and Robotics and a chance to spend one or two semesters at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) Spitzbergen, Coastal Carolina, or at another partner university.

Postgraduate and Research

• MSc Aquaculture, Environment and Society (ACES)

ACES is an amazing 2-year programme that allows an international group of students to study aquaculture in Scotland (semester 1), Crete (Greece, semester 2) and Nantes (France, semester 3) with intensive involvement from industry.

• MSc. Algal Biotechnology and Bioeconomy

Algae produce much of the oxygen we breath and underpin aquatic food chains, but they also have important current and potential roles in pharmaceuticals, pigments, nutraceuticals, biofuels, enzymes, fertilisers, and bioremdiation materials.  On this 1-year course you will learn many research approaches, micro and macro-algal species cultivation, biotechnology, genomics, metabolomics, and will undertake a dissertation project

• MRes Algal Biotechnology, Biology and Ecology

This demanding Master of Research programme is built on the student choosing and carrying out a full-time 1-year research project that culminates in the submission of a written thesis.

• MSc by Research - 1-year full-time research projects (two-year part-time) with a number of areas of focus to choose from.

PhDs

There are a wide variety of on-going PhD programmes covering many areas related to aquaculture.

Please see our postgraduate research opportunities page to view current PhD opportunities.