Author: FE Week Reporter

Students at a Teesside college have made a film to stop companies starting out from making costly mistakes. Ten Prior Pursglove College students wrote, filmed and starred in Business Busters, with help from writer and director Laura Degnan and support from the Redcar and Cleveland Enterprise Team. The film features a city girl who is […]

Chart-toppers of the future will receive a head start at MidKent College with a new soundproofed live room. The facility will give music students the opportunity to practise in private while their music technology counterparts can use the latest high-tech equipment to ensure the quality of performances shines through. Sevenoaks musician and former college lecturer […]

Sheffield College photojournalists helped with the filming of a new drama that highlights the dangers young people can face on the roads. “Crash,” which shows a serious accident and how the three emergency services respond, is due to be screened in South Yorkshire schools early next year. Students on the press photography and photojournalism course […]

Students ate a pig’s head, devoured an octopus and handled a tarantula when Canterbury College held a series of I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here-style challenges to raise more than £1,000 for Children In Need. Eleven brave students tried weird and wonderful dishes cooked by the catering department, including pig’s tongue, frogs’ legs, lumpfish […]

Two aspiring chefs will showcase their cooking skills at the regional final of Springboard’s FutureChef 2013 competition after victory in their local heat at Central Sussex College’s Crawley campus. Lauren Sinfield, 14, from Lancing, and Rhianna Catt, 15, from Brighton, both wowed judges with their culinary creations. Lauren, a pupil at Sir Robert Woodward Academy, […]

Fashion designer Simon Carter dropped in on Kingston College students to give advice on how to get creations from the classroom into stores on the high street. The menswear and accessories designer, who has shops across the UK, told students how he first created his brand 27 years ago. “One of my earliest defining moments […]