Author: FE Week

An England goalkeeper has visited football fans at Newcastle-under-Lyme College’s Knutton Lane campus. Stoke City’s main man Jack Butland was given a tour of the college’s sporting facilities and even took part in a training session with learners at the college’s Andy Griffin Football Academy. To round off his trip, Mr Butland took part in […]

A 12-week-old cockapoo is the newest recruit at Leeds City College. The puppy, named Jeffrey, will frequent the college’s schools of health sciences, childhood and education and public services as a therapy animal for stressed-out students. As well as serving the needs of the college community, Jeffrey will attend puppy training sessions on a weekly […]

Stoke-on-Trent College learners have made the first-ever broadcast on a new national radio station. The team of creative media students brought their show to National College Radio on its launch day, which included a Q&A with their lecturer about his career, a movie review segment and a fast-request challenge featuring 21 song requests in 19 […]

A college is instilling a love of the arts in pupils at a nearby secondary school by running free drama and dance workshops. Sunderland College is working in partnership with Thornhill Academy to run the weekly dance and drama sessions, which give pupils regular access to arts education and inspire them to pursue creative subjects […]

Hartpury College is dragging the agriculture industry into the future by launching a new hub to educate farmers in the latest technological advances, reports Samantha King The £2 million Agri Tech Centre will be based at the college’s 1,000-acre commercial farm, and will provide a place to demonstrate to industry professionals how tech can revolutionise […]

Sixth-formers and university graduates will work together to educate schoolkids about STEM subjects and career options in an innovative new pilot project launched at Queen Mary’s College, reports Samantha King The STEM Sellers initiative will partner five recent graduates on the Atomic Weapons Establishment’s (AWE) graduate programme with 20 of the Hampshire sixth-form’s students on […]

Creative media students have enjoyed a week-long crash course in movie marketing with representatives from film studio, 20th Century Fox. The learners from Manchester College were told to build a digital campaign around the studio’s upcoming film release, Love Simon, a rom-com telling the story of a closeted gay teenage boy in high school. The […]

Catering students experienced the world of military cooking after a visit from the army’s 167 Catering Support Regiment. Under the watchful eye of the team of military chefs, the Warrington and Vale Royal College learners used basic rations to whip up nutritional dishes that could support a soldier in the field, including pasta, stews and […]