In the Scottish Highlands And Islands an educational revolution is taking shape with the opening of our new training hotel in Dornoch – Burghfield House.

With this unique hotel college venture the primary consideration will be our students: your experience, your learning and your career prospects within the ever-changing environment of the Scottish hospitality and tourism industries. By undergoing training alongside the operation of a well run hotel our students have the advantage of learning by doing and at the same time learning in an environment that puts their needs alongside those of our customers. A student graduating from the Burghfield House training hotel will be a well rounded individual ready to take on the challenges of working at the highest level in the hospitality industry.

Students are able to gain practical experience of housekeeping, room booking, food preparation, restaurant operations and bar service. We have six high quality letting rooms, with a fully functioning restaurant serving afternoon teas and evening meals which is open to the public.

Funding for this exciting development was provided by a number of agencies including ERDF, HIE, North British Hotels Trust and Dornoch Common Good Fund.

Our existing centre at Ross House will remain fully operational. It will be dedicated to the delivery of the BA Golf Management degree – Scotland’s first ever golf management degree, which is now available to Honours level.

Yet another example of the vocational and academic opportunities highlighted by this transformational project which The North Highland College (an academic partner of UHI Millennium Institute)is bringing to the cathedral town of Dornoch on Sutherland's North Sea coast.

This project, costing £7 million, will consist of two key components :

• The Burghfield House Training Hotel
• The UHI Centre for History

The century-old Burghfield House, originally a private home but run as an hotel in more recent years, is set in a six acre site which The North Highland College is starting to develop in ways which will boost the prospects of Dornoch and the wider region.

In due course, adjacent to Burghfield House will be a newly erected student residence containing thirty high quality study bedrooms with en-suite facilities.

Nearby, in what was once the stable block of Burghfield House, the UHI Centre For History will have its headquarters in a refurbished stone building containing a library, a videoconference equipped lecture theatre, study space, and office accommodation.

For more information about the project please contact our main campus in Thurso by clicking here.