Author: FE Week

For once, fights in the classroom have been actively encouraged, during a day-long stage combat workshop at a college in Lincolnshire. Students at North Lindsey College were taught the arts of stage safety, victim control techniques and reverse energy in order to create a believable yet perfectly safe fight scene. The workshop has helped students […]

A student on the newly introduced golf greenkeeping standard apprenticeship has taken second place in the Toro Young Student Greenkeeper of the Year awards. Vince DeMarzo, a student at Hadlow College in Kent, was judged on his knowledge of greenkeeping tasks, skills, and health and safety, alongside understanding of the job role, from personal development […]

Fashion students at Hull College have designed and produced a batch of hats and syringe driver bags to help hospital patients feel less self-conscious about hair loss and carrying their medication. The hats and bags which were presented to the pathology unit at Castle Hill Hospital will be given out free to patients as part […]

A special dish created by a college restaurant has made it into a cookbook showcasing the best recipes and stories from Liverpool’s culinary community. The meal, of duck breast, croquettes, dauphinoise potatoes and star anise jus served with a creamy broccoli purée, is a signature dish at Hugh Baird College’s L20 Restaurant, based on Merseyside. Developed […]

Four ferrets belonging to Berkshire College of Agriculture brought home a number of rosettes in a prestigious ferret show, with three-legged Boo scooping a top title. The college’s small-mammal team entered five of their ferrets into the Hants & Berks Ferret Club Show, with four: Boo, Josie, and brother-and-sister team Stig and Mouse, returning victorious. […]

Students at City of Bristol College partnered with local police and rescue services to stage a major firearms incident as part of a police training exercise. Theatrical media make-up students used their skills to provide more than 200 actors with realistic-looking injuries, reflective of those experienced in a serious shooting incident. Actors were asked to […]

A college in Preston has opened a city-centre job shop to help local students secure employment. Preston’s College opened careers service ‘The Job Zone’ at its Fulwood campus last year, and due to its popularity with students, has now expanded to a building in the heart of the city. The new city-centre base on Winckley […]

The death of the band Viola Beach and their manager in a car crash earlier this year shocked the nation. Now, the college they attended has set up a music scholarship in their name, which has just been awarded for the very first time. Samantha King reports. Viola Beach band members Jack Dakin, Kris Leonard, […]