Author: FE Week Reporter

West Nottinghamshire College brought some Brazilian magic to Mansfield by staging a World Cup-style football tournament. Taking part in the competition were 24 five-a-side teams made up of more than 160 students and staff from the college. Each team, named after one of the qualifying nations for the real World Cup, competed in a series […]

Learners from Aylesbury College and Amersham and Wycombe College raced through physical endurance and mental agility tests in front of former Formula One driver Mark Webber. Teams of 12 students from each college completed events including a giant Krypton Factor-style puzzle against the clock, riding as many miles as possible in two hours on exercise bikes, and racing around Silverstone race track, in Northamptonshire, on handpowered cycles. The […]

A student whose hearing disability persuaded her to choose fashion over French is Cleveland College of Art & Design’s graduate of the year. Charlotte Elise Walters, aged 22, was presented with the award at the college’s annual fashion show by former student and lingerie designer Michelle Taylor. She said: “I couldn’t really do French because I […]

New College Nottingham students spent a fortnight shadowing doctors and nurses at a hospital in India. They were shocked to see a mother reject her baby because it was a girl, but came home elated after watching patients’ lives being saved or transformed by surgery, writes Patrick Widdess. India is situated in a different continent […]

South Cheshire College level three engineering students plunged to new depths with an underwater camera capsule. The group of 15 learners designed and built the capsule in college as part of a design and manufacture module and headed to Lake Wastwater, in the Lake District, to test it out. A camera placed inside took a series of images of the bottom of the 270 foot […]

Leeds City College students created signs to be put up along route of the opening stage of the Tour de France through Yorkshire. Keighley Brewery Timothy Taylor commissioned the college to create more than 30 cycle-shaped signs. They were cut from plywood, sanded and painted by eight level two electrical engineering students in a college workshop. The signs will displayed outside the brewery’s pubs that will be passed […]

A campaigning student with Asperger’s syndrome has been presented with an award at a ceremony which recognises the most inspirational young people in Walsall. Bradley Hesom, aged 17, who is studying level one hospitality and catering at Walsall College, received the personal development award at the third annual Walsall Young People Awards. Despite having Asperger’s syndrome, Bradley has led campaigns at the college to stop bullying and discourage students from […]