SOUTH Lanarkshire College has just seen around 140 students graduate from its various courses.

At a ceremony in Hamilton's Town House yesterday, proud families and friends gathered to celebrate the special occasion.

Among the students picking up awards was Vicki McArthur, a hairdresser from nearby East Kilbride, who declared her time at the college may have sparked a career change!

The 34-year-old said: "I decided to do the HNC in Hairdressing at South Lanarkshire because it's a great course.

"It's aimed at encouraging you to be a more creative hairdresser and my plan was to take my career to the next stage and perhaps move on to a bigger city salon.

"However, as part of the course, students also cover make-up artistry and I found that part of it particularly interesting.

"All this means I'm now back doing the HND in Make-Up Artistry, and I love it."

Vicki continued: "The course covers working for the film and television industry and that's an area in which I believe I would like to work.

"I'm sure that my hairdressing experience would also come in handy there too.

"So I could be going in a whole new direction." ALL THE GRADUATES...

FACULTY OF BUSINESS Computing & IT: David Higgins - HNC Computing; Accounting & Business Edward McGee - HNC Accounting.

FACULTY OF CARE

Early Education & Childcare: Susan Robertson - HNC Early Education & Childcare.

Hairdressing: Vicki McArthur - HNC Hairdressing.

Beauty Therapy: Anne Mharie Worrall - HND Beauty.

Health & Social Care:Michelle Dean - HNC Social Care.

FACULTY OF CONSTRUCTION

Construction: Graeme Welsh - HNC Construction Practice.

Painting & Decorating Supervision: Mark Gillespie - HNC.

NORMA J HUTTON AWARD

Janice McEwan - HNC Administration & Information Technology.

BEST INTERNATIONAL STUDENT

Qian Yu Chen.

EDE & RAVENSCROFT AWARD

Gary Semple - HNC Health Care.

SQA CENTRE AWARD WINNER

David Duncanson - HNC Social Care.

HND BEAUTY

Pamela Jemima Duncan; Sara Elliot; ChloeMarjory Geraghty; Jill Hastie; Agnes Sarah Hynd; Eilidh Janet Jardine; Julie Lingham; Linda Marion Mathieson; Alison Margaret McGrail; Amanda McMahon; Natalie Slowey; Dana Uhercikova; Anne-Mharie Worrall.

HNC EARLY EDUCATION AND CHILDCARE

Jodie Allison; Nicola Ballantyne; Nicole Braid; Chloe Bree; Cornelia Buchanan; Arlene Bulloch; Isobel Mitchell Burns; Amanda Burns; Shauna Collins; Daneka Connor; Lynnette Cruickshank; Debra Dawes; Karen Ann Deans; Margaret Dunbar; Nicola Gallacher; Karen Galloway; Kimberley Anne Gibbons; Heena Gill; Kirsty Jean Glass; Sandra Haig; Kay Jones; Nicola Catherine Kilpatrick; Melissa Lynn Lloyd; Kathryn Marion Lynas; Olivia Mackie; Lynsey Mary McClelland; Jacqueline McDuff; Kirsteen Fiona McLaren; Gemma McLaughlin; Angela McLucas; Joan McMillan; Carol Miller; Emma Morris; Fiona Pearce; Arlene Primrose; Lisa Catherine Robb; Susan Robertson; Katie Roxburgh; Claire Scott; Arlene Telford; HNC HAIRDRESSING; Lesley Gourlay; Pamela King; Vicki McArthur; Angela McDonald; Margot O'Neill; Phyllis Therese Taylor; Judy Watton; Tracey Yates.

HNC FASHION MAKE-UP

Gemma Duncan; Christine Emerson; Debbie Ann McLean; Nadine Prow; Joanne Ramsay.

HNC COMPUTING

John James Campbell; David Higgins; Daniel Michael Howard; Alexander Martin; Michelle McLean; Alistair John Middleton; Andrew Reilly; Scott Alexander Watson.

HNC PAINTING AND DECORATING SUPERVISION

Stewart Campbell; Stewart Davidson; Mark George Gillespie; James McLean; Craig Robert McLeish; Ian Shaw.

HNC CONSTRUCTION

David Boland; Garry Boyce; Ross Deans; Andrew Osprey; Martin John Russell; Robin Shearer; Graeme Welsh.

HNC BUSINESS

Matthew Ahearne; Kirsty May Bannan; Vincent Cheung; Nicola Dalton; Emma Donaghy; Kishan Fowdar; Martin Fyfe; Ling Hing Gao; Louise Greig; Bryan Harvey; Shannon Heaney; Mark James Hewitt; Serena Ada Lamont; Lu Ma; Dean Marriot; Karly McSkimming; Vhari Murdoch; Peter Anthony Scanlan; Rachel Ann Watson; Ruo Ru Wu; Jing Xu; Ying Yang; Ying Yin Zhang; Wei Zhong.

HND BUSINESS

Safeena Ali; Yang Cao; Qian Yu Chen; Colin Currie; Xuan Ling Kuang; Xin Xue Lu; Arlene Manderson; Kerry McLellan; Kenneth McLeod; Yong Xiang Wang; Shi Meng Zuo.

HNC ACCOUNTING

Tracy Broadfoot; Lynn Henderson Brown; Christine Campbell; Jessica Chiang; Edward Thomas Connelly; Marie Lynn Crossan; Michael Feeney; James Forrest; Lynn Hamilton; Lyndsey Henderson; Leanne Lennox; Debbie Lindsay; Julie-Anne Mathieson; Edward McGee; Kirsty Mcinally; Jennifer McKeown; Jacqueline McPherson; Craig Mitchell; Derek Mitchell; Tracey Elizabeth Paterson; Nicola Peters; Elaine Simpson; Graeme Smyth; Stephanie Steele; Kirsty Carina Stevenson; Maxine Tracey; Fraser Watson.

HNC SOCIAL CARE

Susan Anderson; Martyn Bradley; Anita Johanna Brown; Carolyn Jane Callaghan; Karen Clark; Michelle Dean; Elaine Ellan Docherty; David Duncanson; Mary Dunn; Karla Ferguson; Kirsty Jane Flemming; Katrina Alexandra Fotheringham; Kathleen Hamilton; Tracey Hanrahan; Donna Henderson; Barry Johnston; Pauline Jones; Charles Kennedy; Susan Lees; Nicola Maxwell; Deborah McCann; Julie McCorrison; Josephine McDermott; Jennifer McKane; Yvonne McMeeking; Janis McNaught; Megan Miller; Patricia Mitchell; Louise Mitchinson; Katherine Moir; Michelle Mullen; Rosina Mungall; William Neil; Chris Neil; Linda O'Brien; Richard O'Donnell; Zoe Primrose; Patricia Lynn Purves; Vivienne Ross; Michelle Sneddon; Elizabeth Marie Thomson; Susan Watt.

HNC HEALTH CARE

Lindsay Boyd; Emma Caldwell; Katie Chung; Lesley Ann Hiddleston; Jennifer Martin; Lisa McDonald; Mark James McGaw; Angela McNally; Sarah Scott; Gary Semple; Steven Simpson; Jamie Whitsed.

HNC ADMINISTRATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Chantelle Caldwell; Rebecca Cameron; Heather Clare; Gillian Downie; Fiona Anne Hastie; Nadia Keary; Janice McEwan; Rebecca Park; Anna Louise Reilly; Amy Louise Robertson; Eilidh Shearer; Rebecca Stoddart; Morag Taylor; Rachel Webb.