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29 April 2026

Author: FE Week Reporter

Businesses key to improving careers advice, Education Secretary tells party conference

Businesses should work more closely with schools on improving careers advice, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said today. Despite claims by Skills Minister Nick Boles that careers advice would feature prominently, Ms Morgan’s speech to the Conservative Party conference contained no policy announcement on the subject. Instead, she said that careers, “for too long overlooked in […]

Students travel 13,000 miles to renovate African school

City College Brighton and Hove could pick up a community award after eight of its students renovated a run-down school in a remote African town, writes Paul Offord. Students and staff from City College Brighton and Hove will never forget the welcome they received after travelling more than 13,000 miles to help renovate a school […]

Making waves with beach clean-up

Animal management tutors and former students from Lancashire-based St Helens College cleared litter from nearby West Kirby beach. They joined local residents for the clean-up event organised by the Marine Conservation Society and Wirral Parks and Countryside Rangers. The staff and students picked up 10 green sacks of rubbish between them. Mike Smillie, animal care […]

Jobcentre Plus to advise young people from age of 15, pledges IDS

Jobcentre Plus will provide careers advice to learners as young as 15, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has announced. He revealed plans for Jobcentre staff to work with schools for the first time during his speech to the Conservative Party conference today. He said the changes would mean that, for the first time, […]

Opening ceremony marks the start of Euro Skills 2014 – come on Team UK

At the start, last night’s opening ceremony for EuroSkills 2014 felt like quite a muted affair — the photographer, film crew and I met competitors from the Metro and after pictures and setting up for the ceremony team members were guided to their seats in the Zenith Arena. But gradually, as more and more teams […]

Blood pressure test for Home Secretary

Pulses were racing as Home Secretary Theresa May had her blood pressure taken by students from Berkshire College of Agriculture. Reading-based private healthcare provider Solutions4Health donated wireless blood pressure monitors, weighing scales, finger pulse oximeters, wireless thermometers and blood glucose monitors for use in lessons at the beginning of this term. The Home Secretary, who […]

Firefighters to rescue at ‘chemical spillage’

Firefighters came to the rescue when students from Mid Cheshire College took part in a chemical spillage simulation. Around 70 uniformed services and health and safety students acted as victims contaminated by a mock-chemical spillage and gas cloud. They were checked at a specially set up decontamination unit and tried on chemical resistant suits and […]

Top artist Grayson Perry awards talented students

Artist Grayson Perry awarded talented students who displayed work in an exhibition put on by the University of Arts London Awarding Body (UALAB). Work by more than 100 students was displayed in the Triangle Gallery at Chelsea College of Art. The UALAB chose a number of art and design students for best-in-show awards which were […]