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Looking ahead to Adult Learners’ Week

As tag lines go, the one being championed as the essence of Adult Learners’ Week, which begins on Saturday, will take some beating. It reads: “There has never been a more important time to celebrate and promote the benefits of learning – encouraging adults to discover the positive impact learning can have on their lives, […]

HR Director of Morrisons to step down next month

The group HR and communications director at Morrisons has announced he will leave the supermarket retailer at the end of June. Norman Pickavance, who has been questioned by the BIS Select Committee over the apprenticeship programme at Morrisons, will leave “to pursue opportunities” elsewhere. Dalton Philips, the chief executive of Morrisons, said: “Norman has been […]

Barking & Dagenham College volunteers

A group of green fingered volunteers from Barking & Dagenham College have been giving up their time to help regenerate Mayesbrook Park. The team of nine, who are Legacy Champions at the college, volunteer every Thursday at the park, planting trees, cleaning and generally helping make the park an even nicer place to visit. The […]

City College Southampton turns up the heat at cookery competition to win 31 awards

Budding chefs at City College Southampton returned triumphant from a recent cookery competition having picked up 31 awards. The students, who are all studying catering and hospitality, walked away from the Wessex Salon Culinaire competition with a total of 16 gold medals, six silver, five bronze and four certificates of merit. The adrenaline-fueled event saw […]

South Thames College’s Olympic helpers

Six excited students from South Thames College have been chosen to be ball boys and girls at this summer’s Olympic Games. The Tennis events are being held at the Wimbledon All England Lawn Tennis Club. The students, aged sixteen to eighteen, took part in the tennis trials which were run as part of London Organisation […]

Canterbury College’s new virtual vet clinic

Canterbury College’s impressive new Veterinary Nursing laboratory has been nominated for a top design award. The state-of-the-art lab is in the running to win an S-Lab award for laboratory design. The awarding body was impressed by its top-range facilities that include a mock surgical theatre, X-Ray machinery and an incubator. The design allows Veterinary Nursing […]

Success for Cambridge Regional College’s 100 apprentices in 100 days campaign

Employers have backed an apprenticeship campaign by Cambridge Regional College to encourage businesses to provide more jobs for young people. The 100 apprentices in 100 days campaign was launched by city MP Julian Huppert with a promise to take on the first apprentice. And employers have already stepped forward to offer new apprenticeship opportunities for […]

Walsall College student brushes off the competition

Walsall College student Lucy Porter has been named winner of the Midlands heat in Dulux Decorator Centre’s Apprentice of the Year competition. The budding painter and decorator fought off stiff competition from 14 other apprentices in the heat, which was held at Bournville College on March 28. Lucy (20) successfully completed a practical work piece, […]

Hospice dedicates valuable brick to Newham College fundraisers

Teenagers’ fundraising efforts for a children’s hospice were celebrated in a newly-created garden of meditation. Richard House Children’s Hospice staff dedicated a special brick in their garden’s a ‘path of life’ for the £550 raised by 14 teenagers brought together by Newham College. The hospice transformed a derelict part of its grounds into a garden […]