Author: FE Week

Business students from Abingdon & Witney College are attempting to deliver 100 coats and jackets to those in need in the area over Christmas. The #100coats project has been launched by level two business students, who will use what they’ve learned about getting messages across and creating visuals during their course to promote the initiative. […]

Motor vehicle engineering students are helping to renovate two ambulances, which are to be driven over 3,000 miles to west Africa. The group of 11 students from West Nottinghamshire College will prepare the vehicles for a 3,390-mile drive across France and Spain into Gibraltar, which will then cross the sea to Tangiers, traversing Morocco and […]

Health and social care students have raised over £850 to help set up a dementia café service at New College Durham with a sponsored memory walk. Around 70 people including staff and students, and their friends and family, took part in the 1.6-mile walk on the perimeter of County Durham’s Beamish Museum. Some of the […]

Students with disabilities and learning difficulties came together in Coventry for the second meeting of the Student Voice Parliament. The event, organised by Natspec, a membership organisation for specialist colleges and independent providers, gives students a chance to raise awareness of the issues that are affecting them in their studies. Concerns centred on accessibility and […]

A student from West Herts College emerged victorious in a competition to make an app teaching children about climate change. The College App Challenge, hosted by Whipsnade Zoo, asked students from local colleges to create an interactive app educating key stage 3 and 4 pupils on the topic, which they then had to present before […]

The principal and chief executive of a further education college has found viral fame with a unique cover of Dolly Parton’s hit song ‘Jolene’, reports Samantha King. Substituting the name of the current education secretary into the incredibly famous country song, self-professed Dolly Parton fan Ian Pryce, who heads up Bedford College, is using his […]

Liverpool Football Club’s executive head chef and catering team have given aspiring chefs from Hugh Baird College a masterclass in stadium catering and hospitality. The group of students from the college’s L20 hotel school met with the club’s top chef, Chris Marshall, and hospitality manager John Hollywood, who offered up some advice on working front […]

An apprentice has made history at the BBC by becoming the youngest ever person to report on the News at 10. Twenty-year-old Izin Akhabau (pictured right) was among the first ever group of digital journalism apprentices taken on at BBC News in 2015, and has now presented a report on spoken-word poetry. The apprentice scheme […]