Author: FE Week

Hospitality and catering students celebrated the end of the college year by indulging in a giant millionaire’s shortbread. The huge biscuit was made for the Kirklees College students by curriculum team leader, Gary Schofield, for the culmination of an end-of-year prize-giving ceremony. The creation was just under a metre wide, and contained 6kg of shortbread, […]

An art student unveiled a pair of giant knitting needles as her submission to Wiltshire College’s end-of-year exhibition and used them to attempt Guinness world record, reports Samantha King Betsy Bond, a level three art and design student brought out two giant knitting needles – 4.4m long and 9cm wide – at her college’s creative […]

Interactive media students have brought primary school pupils’ monster drawings to life using animation and modelling software. A group of 25 schoolchildren from King Edward Primary School in Mansfield were asked to draw what they thought a monster looked like, with the designs then handed over to a team of student designers at West Nottinghamshire […]

A team of students and staff from Oaklands College have won gold for their garden design at BBC Gardeners’ World Live. The team from Hertfordshire took one of just three golds available in the ‘Beautiful Borders’ category, which recognises new and emerging talent within the industry. Their design, called Garden Eden, included species of plants that […]

A book created by an art student documenting her experience at Bradford College is being used to recruit future learners. Inspired by an alumnus of the college, Ladybird illustrator Ernest Aris, BTEC art and design student Kristy Barrett created her own Ladybird book, called ‘Kristy Goes to Bradford School of Art’. The book, which she submitted […]

Hairdressing students have raised awareness of male cancers by hosting a gentleman’s-only fundraising day at their college salon. The group from Leicestershire’s Brooksby Melton College offered barbering services ranging from beard and moustache trimming to haircuts and scalp treatments. For each treatment, the level three hairdressers asked for a minimum donation of £1.50, which will […]

Derby College has organised a free coffee and pampering event for people living with dementia, and for their carers. Hosted at the college’s Engine Shed restaurant, guests were served tea and cakes made by catering and hospitality students. Attendees also had mini beauty treatments, courtesy of students working in the college’s on-site salon. The two-hour […]