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Inaugural AAC Awards: Worthy winners step up

The nation’s best training providers, employers and apprentices have been enshrined at the inaugural Annual Apprenticeship Awards at a glitzy gala dinner. The ceremony, attended by 500 people, was one of the highlights of this year’s AAC conference in Birmingham. The full slate of winners are listed below, and Shane Mann, the managing director of […]

Agriculture students battle the elements to help 400 sheep give birth

Agriculture students have battled the elements to help more than 400 sheep give birth. Monitoring Hartpury College’s flock of a breed known as ‘north-of-England mules’ for 14 hours a day, staff and 140 learners helped to deliver hundreds of lambs, ferrying fresh water to the site after water supplies froze amid plummeting temperatures. Now the […]

Women’s Leadership Network host national conference

Over 80 women from colleges around the country came together on International Women’s Day to network and develop their leadership capabilities, reports Samantha King To incubate strategic leaders within an organisation, it’s necessary to push power downwards, share more information, allow people to try their hand at decision-making and make it safe to fail, according […]

Movers and Shakers: Edition 238

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving Sandra Wakefield, Quality manager, PHX Training Start date: January 2018 Previous job: Quality and training manager, Learndirect Interesting fact: Sandra went to stage school. ____________________________________________ Samantha Rutter, CEO, Open Study College Start date: March 2018 Previous job: Chief operating officer, Open Study College Interesting fact: Samantha […]

Terrorist attack survivor gives students a talk on radicalisation

A 16-year-old survivor of a terrorist attack has shared his experiences with Walsall College’s supported learning students to raise awareness of radicalisation and extremism. Ahmad Nawaz was shot in the arm by Taliban terrorists while at school in Peshawar in Pakistan in 2014, losing his younger brother and numerous school friends in the attack. He […]

College celebrates International Women’s Day with photographic exhibition of Nottingham’s female residents

Learners celebrated International Women’s Day with a photographic exhibition of some of Nottingham’s female residents that went on show at the city’s Victoria Centre. The team of photography students from Nottingham College took 100 photos of business owners, college staff, friends, family, and even two Olympic gymnast sisters, Becky and Ellie Downie, for their ‘Women […]

Student artists join fight to boost tourism in historic Yorkshire town

Aspiring student artists are using their work to encourage more visitors to the historic village of Elsecar in Yorkshire. The group of Barnsley College art and design learners worked closely with the Elsecar Heritage Centre to produce artwork depicting the history of the village, focusing on its architecture, industry and residents. The artwork has already […]

Hair and beauty learn how to give chemotherapy patients a makeover

Hair and beauty students in the north-east have had a crash course in giving chemotherapy patients a makeover. The Middlesbrough College learners explored how to style wigs, redraw eyebrows and work with uneven skin tones, as well as learning about the danger makeup brushes can pose to the patients who have a lowered immune system […]

Sixteen UK colleges open on Saturday in creative arts initiative

Sixteen colleges across the UK are regularly opening their doors on Saturdays in an initiative that’s making the arts more accessible to teenagers, reports Samantha King. Working with the Saturday Club Trust charity, colleges have been running regular clubs lasting up to 30 weeks in fashion, business, engineering, writing and speaking for local school pupils, […]