Author: FE Week

The archbishop of Canterbury has visited students at North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College’s Nuneaton campus. The Most Reverend Justin Welby, who married Prince Harry and Meghan Markle this weekend, visited the college as part of a four-day trip around Coventry and Warwickshire, and confessed to students he was “quite nervous” about his role in […]

A student’s skateboard design will go into production after she won a graphic design competition. Yang Hang (pictured centre), a first-year graphics student at Halesowen College, won after learners were asked to design something that raised awareness of an ongoing global issue, from plastic waste to equality, to animal experimentation and diversity. The competition was run […]

Level two brickwork students have been learning how to restore and rebuild medieval dry-stone walling. The team of learners from Lancaster & Morecambe College have been working on a five-mile stretch of dry stone walling at High Hampsfield Farm in Lindale, which has sections that date back to the middle ages, including a lime kiln. […]

Arboriculture students from Myerscough College’s Preston campus have won prizes in the 2018 Northern College Climbing Competition. The team of level three BTEC students won £500 of arboriculture equipment for their college, impressing judges with their speedy tree-climbing in both of the competition’s categories: climbers with less than one year’s experience, and climbers with less […]

The UK’s first renewable energy training facility based at an FE college has been declared open by the prime minister. The Energy Centre at the Berkshire College of Agriculture was officially opened by Theresa May on April 27. The facility has been developed by the college in partnership with biomass company LC Energy, and will […]

A team of horticulture students are working alongside war veterans to create a garden for this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, reports Samantha King. The ‘Force for Good’ garden is being designed and created by learners from Sparsholt College in partnership with the charity Help for Heroes. It will document the journey of recovery faced by […]

Gaming and IT students came face-to-face with the co-founder of Pixar during a lesson with a difference, reports Samantha King. The group of students from Langley College, part of the Windsor Forest Colleges Group, wore virtual reality headsets and were transported into a virtual classroom, where they met the Oscar-winning animator Loren Carpenter, beaming in […]