Author: FE Week Reporter

Women, people with disabilities and those from ethnic minority backgrounds are being encouraged to try out construction work at a Midlands college. Burton and South Derbyshire College is promoting equality and diversity in STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and maths), after getting funding to offer free training to under-represented groups. The college was one of […]

London students are looking forward to a bigger dinner hall after work got under way on a new £6.5m college build. A traditional ground-breaking ceremony at Uxbridge College marked the start of construction on the building that will also be home to engineering workshops. It will also add two floors of classrooms and staffrooms for […]

Cornish youngsters with designs on a future in business won praise for their scarves, caps, sweatshirts and handmade jewellery. A team of Cornwall College students on the Young Enterprise programme scooped the best stand title at a trade fair held in Truro. Trading under their company name MPR Clothing, the students were offering a range […]

Sporting Midlands youngsters have scored a studies boost with a post-16 netball academy. Derby College has teamed up with the Derbyshire Netball Association and Derbyshire Institute of Sport to set up the academy for players aged 16 to 19. The team will play in the British Colleges Netball League and give players the opportunity to […]

A university undergraduate with an eye for a picture enjoyed his time at college so much he can’t keep away. Tom Porter has been back to South Cheshire College twice in recent months to learn more from college lecturers and help students fine-tune their photography skills. The 20-year-old is in his final year at Falmouth University […]

A female apprentice and mum-of-one rubbed shoulders with Labour Party bigwigs at a national energy conference in the House of Commons. Lowis Marshall, 29, from Gillingham, was at the event alongside colleagues from Chatham-based Prestige Solar & Heating. Shadow energy and climate change secretary Caroline Flint was among those to meet Lowis, who is studying plumbing […]

Two women who run four childcare nurseries are now recruiting staff from the college where they first met. Sarah Saint and Leah Clarke are making business look like child’s play as they employ 45 employees who have been trained at Barking and Dagenham College. The successful business women who studied childcare in the late 1990s […]

A cow called Olive has moooved into a college campus in Durham. East Durham College’s Houghall Campus has introduced the pure breed Hereford cow to help show agricultural students different breeding techniques and systems for cattle. Agriculture was reintroduced at the campus last year and a new herd will be introduced over the next seven years. […]

Students in Yorkshire are helping a charity bring hope to a community. Apprentice plumbers, painters, joiners and electricians at Middlesbrough College have teamed up with The Hope Foundation to breathe new life into the Brambles Farm Community Centre in the north east town. The students are part of Middlesbrough College Build (MC BUILD) – a […]