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Sunderland College’s football course welcomes first-ever crop of international students

Sunderland College has welcomed its first ever crop of international students onto its Football Development Centre course. Andreas Kokoska from Spain, Dimitri Limbo from the Philippines and Mohab Elmarakbi from Egypt are the first international students to join the programme, which combines practical football training with academic study. The trio have travelled from their home […]

Protective services students organise conference on dangers of knife crime at their college

Level three protective services students at Derby College have helped to organise a conference on knife crime for their peers. Working closely with Derbyshire Police, the group has already helped organise similar events in local schools as part of Project Zao, a Derby-wide initiative to raise awareness in young people of the dangers of carrying […]

Scuba diving added to college’s enrichment offer

Bracknell & Wokingham College has partnered with a local diving centre to offer extracurricular scuba diving lessons to students. This partnership, with the idiveteam diving resort in Berkshire, will enable students to work towards a globally recognised PADI diving qualification at a discounted price. The course has been added to the college’s enrichment programme, and […]

Worldskills 2017: Watch the closing ceremony live from Abu Dhabi

Today marks the end of the 44th WorldSkills competition – in which representatives from 59 nations have competed in an incredible range of disciplines from hairdressing to stonemasonry and aircraft maintenance to robotics. The competition is hosted in Abu Dhabi and featured 1,300 competitors, watched by, among others, members of the UAE’s royal family and […]

Annual geography-themed bake-off raises money for charity

A geography lecturer has set students and staff at Winstanley College the task of making geographically-themed cakes to raise money for charity. Submissions to the sixth-form college’s Great Geographical Bake-Off included a Niagara Falls, Stonehenge and an Easter Island head cake, as well as a take on London’s Big Ben dubbed “Big Ben-Offee” by lower-sixth […]

Hairdressing student fundraises for standing wheelchair to help him train

A hairdressing student left paralysed by a motorcycle accident is fundraising for a standing wheelchair to help him train. Mitchell Chalmers, a first-year student at Bath College, needs to raise £4,900 for the chair, which would give him the extra height and support to lift and cut hair more easily. Chalmers was 22 when he […]

Blackburn College first to have forest school enrichment programme endorsed by CACHE

Blackburn College has become the first FE institution in the country to offer a forest school enrichment programme endorsed by the Council for Awards in Care, Health and Education, reports Samantha King. Introduced three years ago, the college’s forest school programme gets level three childhood studies students to take schoolchildren on weekly trips to woodlands […]

Movers and Shakers: Edition 222

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving Geoff Russell, Chairman, JTL Training Start date: December 2017 Previous job: Chief executive of the Skills Funding Agency Interesting fact: He has just started a BTEC course in photography. ____________________________________________ Debra Stuart, Chair, the Training Room Start date: September 2017 Previous job: CEO of Premier Global Group Interesting […]

Everest trek will fund bursaries at adult education college

A member of staff from London’s Mary Ward Centre is trekking to Everest in an effort to raise money for student bursaries to help people who can’t afford course fees. With a fundraising target of £20,000, Sue Cragg, the head of adult and community education at the adult education college, will walk for 12 days […]