Author: FE Week Reporter

A young footballer says his selection to play for England Colleges is the “best birthday” present that his father could have asked for. Jack Stanger, 18, from Sunderland, received the news on his father’s birthday. “When I got the call to tell me I had been selected I was ecstatic,” he said. “It was the best […]

Three catering students from Surrey have made it through the first stages of a competition for young chefs. Sam Hutchinson, Jake Solman-Wood, both 19, and Mathew Clayton, 18, from Carshalton College, are now in the London heats of the 2012/13 Brakes Student Chef Team Challenge. The hospitality and catering students created a meal for four […]

Beauty therapy students from across Kent showcased their make-up skills at a new salon academy. East Kent College hosted a competition for 12 students to transform a model using the theme of fantasy or fashion catwalk. The contest lasted three hours. Four East Kent students joined K College, Canterbury College and MidKent College students to […]

A photojournalist has won a national award after capturing the reality of Britain’s drinking culture. Joel Goodman clinched the student image of the year in the National Council for the Training of Journalists’ (NCTJ) awards for excellence after snatching images outside a popular Manchester nightclub of passed-out revellers, fights, and paramedics and police at work. The […]

Midland construction students have been transforming neglected land into a play area for local schoolchildren. North Nottinghamshire College students built a log cabin for environmental work and a pond for North Wheatley Primary School. Future plans include a lookout tower, an area for den building, a play tunnel and a range of outdoor musical instruments […]

Future space stars took a trip to the House of Commons to rub shoulders with scientists. Twelve students from Loughborough College’s space engineering programme for pupils aged over 16, the first in the country, gave a demonstration to Science Minister David Willetts and heard from Professor Brian Cox on the importance of space education. Anu […]

London students won a mayoral seal of approval when they created scale models of the capital’s landmarks for a float. Carpentry, painting and decorating students from Barking & Dagenham College made replicas of the Shard, the Gherkin, Tower Bridge, the Millennium Wheel and Tower 42 at Canary Wharf for London’s New Year’s Day parade. Anthony […]

A Yorkshire war museum was brought to life when dance students re-enacted a 16th century European battle. The performance at the Royal Armouries was inspired by the Battle of Pavia and choreographed by Briony Marston, a dance tutor at Leeds City College. “It was challenging for the students to adapt to a non-traditional performance space and […]