Author: FE Week Reporter

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 […]

Budding builders are learning new skills at a £10m training centre that’s just opened for young apprentices in Basildon. More than 300 employed apprentices and 200 FE students are now enjoying state-of-the-art facilities for their courses in building services from ventilation, plumbing and electrical installation to refrigeration and air conditioning. The charity Prospects Learning Foundation, […]

A robot and puppies recently helped students at Sunderland College to fight inequality. They thronged around a life-size replica of a stormtrooper from Star Wars and learned how to handle guide dog puppies. Both were at the college to raise awareness of prejudice for Equality and Diversity Week. “We’ve learned about different cultures and foods — […]

When Manchester United players left their Old Trafford pitch at half-time in a recent match, a group of Warrington College students ran on in front of the capacity crowd to show just what they could do. “It was breathtaking playing in front of  a 60,000-strong crowd,” said Ben Graham, 16, one of the college’s  football […]

Barking and Dagenham College students have been working as Santa’s little helpers. More than 20 of the college’s technical theatre students created a grotto at the Broadway Theatre in East London for more than 2,000 visitors expected to turn up to see the man in red. They also spent four weeks creating a grotto in […]

A troupe of jazz dancers has become a London college’s first company-in-residence. International theatre group Body of People (BOP) has set up at Morley College to help develop new courses. BOP artistic director Dollie Henry said the group has always followed the spirit and inclusive expression of jazz “through collaboration and innovation”. “Sharing our professional work […]

Hundreds of schoolchildren were transported to a land of ugly stepsisters, fairy godmothers and pirates as they watched a pantomime double-bill at a Kent college. Dance and drama students at Canterbury College performed all-singing, all-dancing versions of classic children’s tales to children at Pilgrims Way Primary School. More than 50 students were involved in the […]