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College runs integration classes for refugees

North Shropshire college has begun holding integration classes for local refugees to help them with their English skills and teach them key phrases. Currently, there are 12 students in the class; 10 from families taken in from Lebanon by the UN, and two from Bangladesh. Alongside English skills, there will be a focus on employability, […]

Indie pop band Blossoms perform secret gig for Salford students

English indie pop band Blossoms performed a secret gig for creative media and music students at Salford City College’s FutureSkills centre. Media students were on hand with video cameras as the band performed six songs from their chart-topping debut album ‘Blossoms’, including hits ‘Charlemagne’ and ‘Honey Sweet’, which were filmed as part of the BBC […]

FEATURE: Lecturers tie Titchmarsh to a tree for Channel 4 programme

Tethering a TV presenter high up to a tree is something that many people will go through their entire lives never having done, but the chance arose for three forestry lecturers from Plumpton College. Samantha King reports. To mark the 90th anniversary of AA Milne’s beloved children’s character, producers from Channel 4 decided to mark […]

Movers and Shakers: Edition 197

Your weekly guide to who’s new, and who’s leaving. Dame Martina Milburn, the chief executive of the Prince’s Trust, has joined the board of City and Islington Westminster Colleges in central London. A former journalist, Dame Martina became chief executive of the BBC Children In Need appeal in 2000, a post she held for four […]

Movers and Shakers: Edition 196

Your weekly guide to who’s new, and who’s leaving. Catherine Dixon has been appointed chief executive at Askham Bryan college, one of the largest agricultural and further education colleges in the UK. With its main campus based in York, the college also has sites in Newcastle, Wakefield and Cumbria, offering courses in land-based skills such […]

FEATURE: Young developers create chart-topping PC adventure game

Three young games developers from Oxfordshire have made a splash in the online gaming world after their first ever release received worldwide support and topped an indie gaming hot list. Samantha King reports. For most people, the Christmas break is a time of eating, drinking and relaxation, but for three Banbury and Bicester college students, […]

Students take on premier league footballers in a game of powerchair football

Elite powerchair football students from Queen Alexandra college have taken on some famous faces from the footballing world to celebrate the launch of the college’s newest sport course. The Birmingham-based college recently launched its Elite Powerchair Football programme for young people with high needs aged 16-24, who use either a powered or manual wheelchair. Students […]

Minister Halfon pays a visit to London’s first ever career college

Robert Halfon, the minister of state for apprenticeships and skills, has paid an official visit to London’s first ever hospitality career college. The minister was taken on a tour of the Greater London-based Hospitality, Food and Enterprise Career college – part of London South East colleges – and unveiled a plaque to commemorate his visit. […]

Fizzy drink created by students set to hit local shelves

A team of catering students from Barking and Dagenham college have designed a new fizzy drink that will go on sale in local shops this year. ‘Rapple Fizz’, a blend of apples and rosehip, will be the latest beverage to hit the shelves in the London borough, following a competition run by Company Drinks, a community […]