Author: FE Week

Over 40 learners have come together for a charity fashion show at Nelson and Colne College, which raised more than £1,000 for Cancer Research UK. A-level and vocational students from the college’s art and design, hair and beauty, and creative and media departments put their skills into practice to bring the Stand Up To Cancer […]

Four public services students have been praised by police after they saved a man’s life on their walk home from college. The students from Warrington & Vale Royal College came to the aid of a man who was considering jumping from a bridge over the M62 motorway, keeping him calm and blocking his path to […]

Durham Cathedral is displaying work from local learners at a new exhibition on the fashion choices of kings and queens from the House of Tudor. BTEC foundation and extended diploma fine art students from Darlington College have been asked to contribute artwork on a Tudor theme for the exhibition, which could take the form of […]

A team of foundation studies students and their lecturer have raised over £500 to help fund the education of a boy with Downs Syndrome in Nepal, reports Samantha King. After learning about humanitarian work as part of a module on volunteering, a group of learners at Truro College with special educational needs, decided to raise […]

A college’s equine department has taken in a rescue horse for the very first time. Noo-Noo, named after the Teletubbies character, was one of five ponies rescued by the RSPCA in a roadside abandonment case, and will be rehomed at Askham Bryan College’s Middlesbrough campus. The new addition will be valuable for animal care and […]

An accomplished chocolatier who won the BBC Two show Bake Off Crème de la Crème has visited Bath College to teach students a range of chocolate-making techniques. Mark Tilling, an award-winning confectioner who came 7th in the 2009 World Chocolate Masters Finals in Paris, showed students how to melt and temper chocolate, how to create […]

Horticulture students are helping to transform the landscape around a new rehabilitation centre in Leicestershire. The team of level three learners from Brooksby Melton College helped plant 30 trees along the Get Busy Living centre’s driveway, and have already volunteered more of their time to help with future projects to develop the surrounding area, using […]

The Royal Shakespeare Company tasked creative media students at Stratford-upon-Avon College to film trailers for their upcoming productions as part of their coursework. Students on the college’s level three creative media course made promos for an upcoming RSC production, pitching their artistic visions to the RSC’s marketing team in a Dragon’s Den-style presentation before getting […]