Author: FE Week

A student nail technician has carved out a niche in the crowded nail art market by using dead bugs, insect wings and real snakeskin in her designs, reports Samantha King Leanne Douglass (pictured), a nail services student at Stockton Riverside College, was inspired to do something different following a module on her course that explored […]

Creative and media students at Sunderland College invited a diverse range of guests to tell their life stories as part of a project aimed at challenging stereotypes. A nun, a transgender woman, an alternative healer, a sufferer of bipolar disorder and a police officer with lupus were amongst the guests who visited the college and […]

The Heart of Worcestershire College has teamed up with the Stroke Association to deliver its first certified course for stroke survivors. The 10-week employability course is designed to help those who have suffered from the disease get back into work, through confidence building, and learning the best ways of searching and applying for jobs. The […]

A team of 25 students from Goole College have created a ship-shaped plant pot for a small Yorkshire town’s entry into the Britain in Bloom contest. The welding and fabrication students were commissioned to make the ship and its accompanying crane by Associated British Ports, for Immingham town council’s entry into the national horticulture competition. […]

Bishop Burton College is celebrating the first-ever litter of racoon dogs to be born at the campus. Resident racoon dogs Ralph and Lauren welcomed the arrival of quintuplets – three female and two male pups – the first time a litter of the canid species has been born at the college. Originally from East Asia, […]

A lead animator from the studio behind blockbusters Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep paid a visit to creative media students to give them a lesson on making one of their most famous creations: Gromit, reports Samantha King. Jim Parkyn, a senior model-maker from the Oscar-winning studio Aardman Animations, spent a day […]

A farming charity has paid a visit to Abingdon and Witney College agriculture students to warn them about the hazards faced by farmers. Over 70 students attended the talk, which included practical demonstrations on hazards such as being crushed by livestock, falling from ladders (demonstrated above), unsafe practice with a chainsaw and limb entrapment in […]