Author: FE Week

A team of floristry students has been chosen to represent the British Florist Association at the world-famous RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The seven Moreton Morrell College students won a national competition to mark the BFA’s 100th anniversary with their design for a floral feature, which they will display in the show’s floristry zone. The design […]

Fabrication and welding students have created a memorial tree to help a local special needs primary school commemorate pupils who have passed away. The team of students from North Lindsey College created an eight-foot tree structure out of steel after being approached by St Luke’s Special Primary School in north Lincolnshire, who wanted a way […]

A college chaplain has initiated a monthly animal café as a way of making connections with students and staff, as well as helping them to relieve stress, reports Samantha King Halesowen College’s multi-faith chaplain, Hazel Charlton, wanted to find a way to make herself more accessible, so she came up with the idea of hosting […]

A specialist college in Gloucestershire has uncovered old archives revealing what life was like for its disabled students five decades ago. During preparations for its 50th anniversary celebrations, staff at National Star College uncovered old record books from when the college first opened in May 1967. There were just 10 students at the college when […]

A plumbing student has been crowned the winner of a skills competition in the north-east. Seventeen-year-old Josh Wilkinson, who studies a level two EAL diploma in plumbing and heating at East Durham College, took first place in the North East Inter-College Plumbing Competition Final, as the only competitor to successfully build a fully watertight pipe […]

Horticulture staff and students at Derby College have designed a garden representing multiple sclerosis as their entry to BBC Gardeners’ World Live. More than 50 students have been involved in the design and building of the garden, which depicts the journey from diagnosis to life with the disease. The garden will feature soft-flowering plants and […]

A group of students from Wigan and Leigh College have gone behind the scenes of BBC’s Question Time to see what a career in television might be like. Students from the college’s level three media course and A-level professional honours programme took part in backstage preparations and pitched questions to David Dimbleby during a script […]

Blackpool Sixth Form College’s student council has been on a mission to keep teenagers across the Fylde coast healthy during exam season – by giving out free bananas to those in need. Each banana comes with a guide produced by the college as part of its ‘Learn to Live’ healthy eating campaign, and addresses how […]