Author: FE Week Reporter

Lifelong Aston Villa fan Jamie Irvin is constantly dipping into his club’s colours. The 20-year-old, Walsall College student has just finished a painting and decorating apprenticeship at the Premier League club’s football ground and is now a permanent member of staff. “It’s a dream come true,” he said. “At the beginning I was taking pictures […]

Santa is home for the holidays in a Northamptonshire college’s winter wonderland. For the past six weeks construction, horticulture, floristry and animal welfare students at Moulton College’s commercial garden centre have been designing and building a thatched cottage and sleigh for Father Christmas, plus a stable for his reindeer. “From the original idea of making […]

West Midland sport students have been selected to compete at international level in football and ice hockey. Savvas Panayiotou, 17, who plays for Solihull College’s football academy, has been chosen to play for Cyprus’s under-19 national team. Savvas, who has already represented his country in matches against Poland and Hungary, will start training with the […]