Simon Lunter came to Scotland when he was just 11-years-old, he spoke no English when he started attending Deans Community High School 4 days after arriving in the country. During his first week there Simon was advised to take an English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) course. This led him to West Lothian College.

Suzanne Ewing spent around 25 years in retail before deciding she wanted a change in her career. This is when she applied to West Lothian College and secured a place on the Int 2 Social Sciences Course.

Lora Coyle came to West Lothian College in 2009 to study an Intermediate 2 in care. She would often miss classes, sometimes several in a row. But this wasn’t simply a lack of commitment to the course or lack of desire to be at college, Lora was struggling with so much under the surface.