Author: FE Week

Six students from City College Norwich are the first in the country to complete a week’s work experience behind the walls of a prison. The group, who are on the extended diploma level three public services course at the college, undertook the placement at HMP Norwich as part of a scheme aiming to engage young […]

A trip to Lapland over the Christmas period is considered the ultimate festive holiday, and over 40 local schoolchildren had the chance to go there thanks to students at a North Lincolnshire college – with a bit of imagination, of course. Samantha King reports. Pupils from St Bernadette’s Catholic Primary Voluntary Academy flew first class, […]

A college looking to recruit more pupils to take STEM subjects held a gruesome day of live surgery for a group of local schools. Blackpool and the Fylde College hosted the event to give prospective pupils hands-on experience of specialist careers, hosting a live surgery experience where they performed operations on animal organs. It wasn’t […]

A media student from New College Durham has written a book that he hopes will raise awareness of autism. 19-year-old Nathan Alexander Kennedy, a level three media student, has drawn on his own experiences of having autism to write the book, which features an autistic teenager called Foster Graham as the main character. Nathan describes his […]

The achievements of students and staff from Weston College have been recognised at the college’s annual Celebration of Success event. Hosted by principal and chief executive of Weston College Group Dr Paul Phillips CBE, alongside keynote speaker and BBC Presenter Alex Lovell, the awards acknowledged students and staff that have exceeded expectations over the past […]

Theatre design students at Northbrook college are bringing magic to the stage for Christmas, after being commissioned to create a Tinkerbell figurine for Worthing Theatres. The students from the Sussex-based college were commissioned by the theatre’s marketing team to make a larger-than-life fairy to promote this year’s Peter Pan pantomime. With a brief to recreate […]

A college for people with disabilities and learning difficulties has become the first in the UK to receive a new national training award. National Star College in Cheltenham was awarded the Princess Royal Training Award for its two-week induction training for staff, which involves a mix of classroom and workplace learning, and a tailored learning […]