Author: FE Week Reporter

Television star and businesswoman Karren Brady,centreabove, hasbackedan entrepreneurship programme run by an East Midlands college. Lord Sugar’s aide on the BBC television series The Apprentice, who is also vice-chairman of West Ham Football Club, visited West Nottinghamshire College to launch a scheme in which experts coach aspiring tycoons to help them to get their business ideas off […]

Celebrity engineer and inventor Dick Strawbridge was on hand to open a Yorkshire college’s new £7.5m engineering base. Kirklees College marked the opening of its state-of-the-art learning centre with fireworks, tours and demonstrations, and a guest list of careers advisers, local business men and women, students and education partners. Dick said: “Being an engineer is fundamental […]

Olympic and Paralympic gold medal winners have helped to raise £32,000 to support hard-up students in East London. Record-breaking track athlete David Weir and 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu were among guests at the launch of the Learning Revolution Trust at Newham College. The charity has been set up to help learners of all ages to […]

Atop scientist gave North Yorkshire students a masterclass on genetics to celebrate the opening of their college’s new £7m building. Lord Robert Winston also took a tour of Middlesbrough College’s new sixth-form centre and sports academy. The building of MC6 has been part of the biggest regeneration scheme outside London. Lord Winston, who has presented […]

To mark its tenth anniversary this year, the Institute for Learning (IfL) invited founder members to an afternoon tea at the House of Commons hosted by Barry Sheerman MP,an IfL patron and former chair of the education select committee. Tim Boswell, also an IfL patron and a former Conservative education minister, welcomed guests to the […]

Midland law students will be keeping bang up-to-date on all things legal, thanks to a new partnership with local solicitors. Mentors from Howells Solicitors will offer one-to-one advice to 25 Sheffield College students over the coming year. The firm has agreed to provide work shadowing, and is donating its copies of The Law Society Gazette […]

Entrepreneurs at a West London college raised £150 for local charities with a Halloween event. Scary treats, ghoulish make-up and spooky dances were all organised by Uxbridge College’s entrepreneurs’ society, the Young Dragons. The Mayor and Mayoress of Hillingdon joined students for the event, with Mayor Michael Markham even getting stuck in and face painting […]

Arts students delved into their dark sides to stage a major exhibition with a haunting theme. Cleveland College of Art & Design, in Middlesbrough, was approached by Preston Hall Museum, Stockton, to create a gothic horror exhibition of work in its new gallery. The collection by Year 1 and 2 BTec extended diploma in interactive […]