Author: FE Week Reporter

Students from Mid Cheshire College will be able to host shows for a community radio station that has moved to the campus. Mid Cheshire Radio transferred its broadcasting equipment into two spare rooms at the college’s Creative Arts and Sports Centre, after it was forced to move out of the Verdin Centre, in Cheshire, because […]

Business Secretary Vince Cable saw how building work was progressing on Fareham College’s new £12m centre for excellence in engineering, manufacturing and advanced skills training. The centre, near Portsmouth, will contain seven workshops and 12 classrooms for 450 learners studying a variety of technical subjects, including mechanical, aerospace, manufacturing, electrical and marine engineering. Building work […]

Birmingham toddlers are getting outstanding care at a college nursery has been recognised with a grade one rating by Ofsted. The nursery was rated by Ofsted inspectors, who praised the “interesting learning activities” for children and a good relationship between parents and staff. As well as providing care for learners’ and members of staff’s children, […]

Students from South Leicestershire College have transformed many dilapidated rooms and community facilities since they launched a DIY SOS scheme three years ago. But the current team was presented with one of its biggest challenges yet when asked to repaint an entire house for twins whose mother died of cancer five months ago, writes Paul […]

Students from Chesterfield College were challenged to create works of art inspired by men’s and women’s battles with breast cancer. The Hello Beautiful Foundation, a charity which supports women suffering with the disease, asked 30 art and design level three and four learners to contribute to an exhibition at the college. Their work was also […]

Richard Huish College student Harry Trump has snapped up a job with a photography agency. Devon-based firm Pinnacle Photography hired Harry, aged 18, part-time after being impressed with photos he took last season of county matches at Somerset Cricket Club, in Taunton. His snaps were published in The Times, The Telegraph, The Sun and The […]

Former Truro and Penwith College student Jack Nowell passed the international rugby union test by helping England beat Scotland to win the Calcutta Cup. The 20-year-old made his Six Nations debut in the heart-breaking 26-24 defeat to France at the Stade de France two weeks ago. He was then chosen to play against Scotland at […]

Catering students from Gloucestershire College showed their sweet side by baking 25 cakes for a charity to sell. The students responded to an appeal from Vance Hopkins, general manager of the James Hopkins Trust, for supporters to bake 100 cakes. The charity, which supports severely disabled and ill children, had been invited raise funds through […]