Author: FE Week Reporter

A former Manchester TV and radio production student cooked up a storm on his first job for a new ITV cooking show. Guglielmo ‘Guli’ Soreca, aged 29, who is originally from Italy but studied at Hopwood Hall College, spent five weeks filming Gino’s Italian Escape with celebrity chef Gino D’Acampo. Guli, who went on to […]

A long-lost mural from a legendary 1960s rhythm and blues venue has been brought back to life by a London art and design student. The painting of a jazz band was once part of Twickenham’s Eel Pie Island Hotel, which hosted music icons like The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart and Eric Clapton. The hotel burned […]

A lecturer who taught the first ever digital marketing course in Northern Ireland has been named Digital Industries Person of the Year. Kathryn Pyper received the award for her dedication to teaching at Belfast Metropolitan College and the success of her marketing campaigns for the Northern Ireland Tourist Board as part of the CultureTech Festival […]

Fashion students from Manchester have bagged themselves the chance to see their designs turned into reality and sold in Japan. Higher education fashion and textile students at Walsall College were given a month to design a young person’s business bag by Brady Bags, a Walsall brand that is growing in Japan. Rachael Stanford’s design was […]

Doncaster College students have revealed a flag they designed in memory of miners who lost their lives at a nearby colliery. The flag was raised in a special ceremony by Doncaster Central MP and former cabinet minister Rosie Winterton and former miner Dennis Knowles. It will fly at the Miners’ Memorial Garden to honour the […]

South Cheshire College said ‘Hola!’ to chilli, fajitas and amigo meatballs at a Mexican taster day staged for staff and students by the college’s catering outlets. The catering team entered into the Mexican fiesta spirit by wearing somberos and ponchos and decorating the cafes with Mexican flags. Linda Vickers, crescent café catering supervisor, said: “This […]

London student has gone from styling homes to styling celebrity hair after changing career and landing a job at Harrods Salon. He has now been taken on as junior assistant stylist at the world famous department store’s salon. “I wanted to be a stylist because I love meeting people, changing people’s opinions about their looks […]

Angel Lynch knew hair and beauty wasn’t right for her — and so she set off on a new path in which she would overcome dyslexia and balance engineering studies with caring for a new-born son, writes Rebecca Cooney. In a hair and beauty class at Basingstoke College of Technology (BCoT) in 2012, students were […]