Author: FE Week Reporter

The race is on for Norfolk students to get under the bonnet of a Formula Ford racing car on a new course run with Shawn Taylor Racing. City College Norwich got the racing car for students on its motorsport vehicle maintenance and repair course to tinker with under the guidance of the expert racetrack firm. […]

Simon Cowell will be casting his eye over a former London college student whose band has made it through to the X Factor boot camp. Luke White, who studied performing arts at Barking and Dagenham College, and his Times Red bandmates Scott Ritchie and Staz Hair wowed show judges with a rendition of Amy Winehouse […]

Five young musicians will rock the House of Commons when they perform for Speaker John Bercow in November. Stoneway – made up of Ste Fisher, Alex Roberts, Sarah Ash, Daniel Smith and Merryn Dowson from Warrington’s Priestley College – won the opportunity in a national competition promoting intellectual property rights and live music. “We were […]

A cabinet maker struck gold as his West Sussex college scooped the UK’s best performer title at a construction sector competition. Celebrity builder Tommy Walsh, formerly of BBC show Ground Force, was on hand to dish out awards with Edward Harringman, 19, claiming top honours at the Skillbuild finals. Meanwhile, Chichester College got the overall […]

Top chefs at the Olympics were so impressed by the culinary skills of a hearing-impaired learner that they’ve offered him a job. Hospitality and catering student Ryan Easton, 19, cooked for more than 13,000 athletes during a 10-week placement at the Olympic Park athletes restaurant, serving some of its biggest stars, including Usain Bolt and […]

It was all aboard for primary school children in Somerset as they hopped on to a double-decker bus converted by construction students into a study area. The £5,000 project was dreamed up by year 5 and 6 pupils at Aschcombe Primary School. It won a grant from North Somerset Council to pay for materials for […]