Author: FE Week Reporter

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 […]

A Cheshire economics student has scored one of the highest marks in a finance exam. James Anderson, 18, made it into the top 1 per cent of grades for his Level 3 School of Finance certificate. “I want to be an investment banker because I want to be living in the City and like the look […]