Author: FE Week

Poison dart frogs are known for their minute size, bright colours and highly toxic skin that can result in a trip to A&E – but one daring lecturer at North Shropshire College is on a mission to breed them. Samantha King reports. At 2.5cm in length and available in a wide variety of colours, the […]

A Barnsley College student is aiming to break a world record for the biggest collection of UK rail tickets. 17-year-old James Connelly, a travel and tourism student at the college, was inspired to set the record after hearing news that the traditional rail ticket will be phased out in favour of a paper receipt. The current […]

A-level history students at Weston College have heard a harrowing first-hand account of the Holocaust, during a talk from Polish survivor Janine Webber. Webber was born in Poland in 1932 and after Germany’s invasion of the country, she and her family had to endure living in one of the many ghettos set up for Jewish […]

A £10m STEM training centre at the Colchester Institute in Essex has been launched by a humanoid robot with help from a human MP. The new South Wing centre, funded by the Colchester Institute and the Skills Funding Agency, will focus on training for skills gaps across construction, engineering and healthcare, and is based at the […]

A 17-year-old athlete has been chosen to represent his country after being selected to join England’s Under-18 National Basketball Squad. Stoke-on-Trent College student Rhizwahn Harris is one of 38 boys chosen for the squad, following a gruelling Under-17s regional development tournament at Manchester’s National Basketball Performance Centre, which saw players observed closely and assessed on their […]

As far as course inductions go, A-level sociology students at City College Norwich got more than they bargained for from former death row inmate Nick Yarris. Samantha King reports. At just 20 years old, American-born Nick Yarris was sentenced to die by electric chair for a crime he didn’t commit. Convicted on charges of rape, […]

A pair of football legends visited students at Bracknell and Wokingham College last week.  Ex-Arsenal chairman David Dein and retired international footballer Tony Woodcock spoke to students about their illustrious sporting careers. The pair also imparted valuable career advice, stressing the importance of being innovative, and not being afraid to put yourself forward. Dein has been […]

City College Brighton and Hove is helping disabled learners access employ-ment through a newly launched social enterprise – with the help of a famous face. The college will be working in partnership with the charity Team Domenica, which offers learning programmes for young adults who have learning or social barriers to help get them into […]