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Hands-on work experience at high-profile cycle events

City College Norwich students provided sports massage to hundreds of competitors in high-profile cycle races. The level three and four sports massage therapy, personal training, and sport health and exercise learners gained hands-on work experience at Brands Hatch race track, in Kent, where they tended to riders in the Cyclothon UK 12-hour endurance event. After […]

Scaling heights for mountain rescuers

Staff and students from Derbyshire-based Buxton and Leek College scaled the heights with a fundraising trek for a mountain rescue group. The group of 12 level three outdoor sports learners and library staff scaled Peak District hills Brown Knoll and Mam Torr during their 10-mile walk. They raised £228 in sponsorship which was handed to […]

Film star wears Rosie’s dress for photoshoot

Hollywood star Helena Bonham-Carter wore a corseted dress designed by a former City of Oxford College fashion student for a photo-shoot with a leading magazine. Rosie Dennington, aged 23, who completed an extended diploma in fashion at the college in 2010,is a long-term fan of the actress’s unconventional vintage and gothic-influenced dress-sense. Her father […]

Team UK arrive in Lille ahead of Euro Skills 2014

Yesterday morning, Team UK set out for EuroSkills in Lille. The 19 young men and women will compete against fellow apprentices from across Europe, hoping to hone their skills, pick up medals and maybe, just maybe, earn themselves a spot on the team at the WorldSkills finals in Brazil next year. You could be forgiven […]

Cut benefits for under 21s to fund three million apprenticeships – Cameron

The Conservatives will increase the number of apprenticeships from 2m to 3m in the next Parliament funded by cuts to benefits for young people, David Cameron has announced. The Prime Minister has revealed plans to stop childless 18 to 21-year-olds from claiming housing benefit and withdraw their jobseeker’s allowance if they don’t find work in […]

Edition 112: Stuart Rimmer, Penny Wycherley and Brian Keenan

A former “apprentice principal” has taken the reins at Great Yarmouth College (GYC). Stuart Rimmer has left the director of quality and enterprise role he held for seven years at Lancaster and Morecambe College (LMC) to become a first-time principal in Norfolk. The 38-year-old takes over following the retirement of Penny Wycherley, who became Great […]

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Shadow Education Minister Ali resigns

The Junior Shadow Minister for Education Rushanara Ali has stepped down after refusing to take part in yesterday’s vote on military action in Iraq. The Labour MP who had responsibility for young people on the opposition’s front bench said she was concerned civilians would be caught in the crossfire. Parliament was recalled yesterday to vote […]

Labour Conference: questions over Miliband’s skills aim

Labour leader Ed Miliband’s 2014 conference address has prompted FE and skills sector questions about figures behind his pledge to bring the number of apprenticeship starts up in line with those at university. In his speech in Manchester on Tuesday, Mr Miliband said he wanted the same number of school-leavers to go on to apprenticeships […]