Author: FE Week

Hosted at Truro Cathedral by BBC Radio Cornwall’s Daphne Skinnard, the Cornwall Teacher Awards recognise excellent educators across 13 categories, with accolades up for grabs such as the Lifetime Achievement Award, Outstanding Headteacher and Governor of the year. Truro and Penwith College – judged outstanding by Ofsted in its most recent inspection – beat schools […]

Hair, beauty and media make-up students from Hugh Baird college are taking part in a scheme to help unemployed women find work. The Dress it Forward project, launched two years ago by Sefton & Liverpool Women in Business CIC, encourages people across Merseyside to donate their unwanted work wear to help those struggling for employment […]

A group of East Durham College students have handmade and donated outdoor play equipment to a local primary school. The team of nine created a wooden boat, car and bike for the Shotton Hall Primary schools’ early years play area, working on all elements of the project, from initial planning and preparation through to construction. […]

Strictly Come Dancing stars AJ Pritchard and Chloe Hewitt attended the launch of Birmingham Metropolitan college’s new performing arts facility, Stage Studios. The dancing duo – who are national and European Latin dance champions and regularly appear on the BBC show – took part in a question and answer session with performing arts students during […]

Two members of National Star college staff helped a student realise her dream of completing a marathon by pushing her 26 miles in an all-terrain wheelchair. Bethan Griffiths, a 22-year-old student at the college who has cerebral palsy, wanted to complete the Brighton marathon in memory of her mum Amanda, who died last year of […]

Supported learners at East Kent College has taken part in a fashion show celebrating and supporting diversity in the industry. The students, based at the college’s Folkestone campus, created a collection of second-hand clothing which they debuted on the catwalk. The collection, called Altered Images, was created from clothes sourced from charity shops, and promoted […]

Two students from Gloucestershire College have hand-painted a 5ft hare statue that will become part of the annual Cotswold Hare Trail. The challenge places more than 80 hare statues across 20 villages, towns and cities in the Cotswolds, with the students’ creation – named ‘The Strawberry Thief’ – positioned in the reception of the college’s […]

The presenter of Channel 4 series First Dates, is heading up a new programme to get young offenders filling hospitality skills gaps. Presenter Fred Sirieix – who previously worked in Michelin star restaurants as a maître d’ – has established an initiative called ‘The Right Course’, which aims to get prison restaurants operating like high […]

The principal of Portland College is celebrating a decade at the helm by taking 10 different challenges over 10 months to raise money for a new activity centre. Mark Dale has been principal of the specialist college in Nottinghamshire since October 2006, and wanted to mark his decade of service by doing something different. He […]