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 […]

Greater Manchester students brushed up on their street art skills for a BBC television show. The One Show enlisted the help of Hopwood Hall College art students for a programme on the street artist Walter Kershaw, famous for his murals of Trafford Park during the 1980s and 1990s. The BBC filmed their progress over two […]

A Somerset college has become the first in the country to launch its own television channel. CUTV is the brainchild of Weston College music curriculum manager Paul Raymond and his son Corry, 19, who is studying a Btec in media production. An interview with Manic Street Preachers’ record producer Greg Haver will be one of the […]

When the Coventry Foodbank Warehouse was inundated with tins and jars of food after appearing on a BBC documentary, 12 students from the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy at City College Coventry stepped in to lend a hand. “It made us realise how lucky we are to be looking forward to a Christmas with good food […]