Author: FE Week

Students from Hartpury College got embroiled in the world of competitive dog agility last weekend, as the campus played host to a national dog show, reports Samantha King Competitors and their dogs from across the UK gathered in Gloucester for the Hartpury UKA show, an event for people who are serious about dog agility to […]

Five budding film critics from Stratford-upon-Avon College have taken top prizes in a film-reviewing competition. The group of students, who all study the college’s A-level film course, submitted reviews to the review of the week competition run by Into Film, an educational organisation funded by the British Film Institute. Their submissions were selected as the […]

South Cheshire College’s on-site restaurant, Academy, has been named AA College Restaurant of the Year 2017. The training restaurant and deli received the accolade at the annual AA hospitality awards in London, which recognise excellence in catering across the UK. Three college restaurants were shortlisted for the award, including Fareham College’s Avenue 141 and The […]

Media students from Chesterfield College have helped children in hospital experience a live concert through a unique work experience opportunity. Students helped to livestream a gig by indie band The Sherlocks from the O2 Academy Sheffield for nine seriously ill children being cared for at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, while the band delivered personalised messages to […]

The reigning champions of an annual charity soapbox derby will attempt to defend their title this week. Barnsley College, won the ‘most creative cart’ award at last year’s Bluebell Woods soapbox derby in Rotherham with their Fireman Sam-themed car, and their new entry is based on the character of Tow Mater from the Pixar film […]

A new research project is looking at what skills and competencies middle leaders need to succeed in their line-management roles. The project, led by a researcher from the School of Education and Childhood Studies at the University of Portsmouth, is looking for middle managers in further education to fill out an online survey, and will […]

After 20 months of fundraising, a Sussex college has raised more than £82,000 to help build a school in one of Kenya’s poorest areas, reports Samantha King. The new Walk Centre Primary School in Nakuru – one of the largest cities in Kenya – has been a long time in the planning, but finally came […]