Author: FE Week

A college’s on-site restaurant has become the first in Liverpool to achieve gold accreditation from People 1st. The L20 hotel school and L20 restaurant at Hugh Baird College was also awarded ‘centre of excellence’ status for the quality of the training it delivers to aspiring chefs, as well as its links with the catering industry. […]

A UK-wide competition is seeking the most social media-savvy people working in further education. The FE Social Media Superstars 2018, run by Jisc, is looking for anyone from marketing staff to college principals who are making a positive difference to the sector using social media. Applicants will be judged on how they use social media […]

The new education secretary encountered dancing robots and learned about cybersecurity during his first official visit to a further education college. Damian Hinds visited New City College Hackney on February 9 to find out more about digital and tech education, and met students on games design, media and computing courses. As part of his visit, […]

Blackburn College is developing more eco-friendly ways of powering aircraft vehicles. A two-year research project will look at ways of converting wasted heat into power, with the college working in partnership with the National Aerospace Technology Programme, which is funding the research. Students from across the college’s engineering, electrics, plumbing and art and design courses […]

Six charity shops in Suffolk will be taken over by college students in an effort to increase their takings. Level three business and retail learners studying at West Suffolk College will occupy the shops from February 26 to March 2, using their business, visual merchandising and social media skills to encourage more people to visit. […]

Learners have been sending thank-you cards to their favourite former high school teachers, as part of a college’s mental health and wellbeing programme. Students at Birkenhead Sixth-Form College have been writing to their old teachers at secondary schools across the Wirral to thank them for their support and share their own achievements post-16. The cards […]

Eleven colleges are offering their students the chance to train as activists as part of a programme run by the National Union of Students and Friends of the Earth, reports Samantha King. Operating in colleges in the east Midlands, Bristol, London and south Wales, the My World, My Home project gives learners the chance to […]