Author: FE Week Reporter

Havering College student Charlotte Cook has risen to the challenge in a competition to make a cake celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The 16-year-old has created a spectacular street party scene demonstrating her exceptional skills and knowledge of cake decoration and sugar craft. The teenager, from Stapleford Abbots in Essex, is passionate about baking and […]

A Weston College apprentice was sent by her employers on an adventurous personal development course – an extreme sports scholarship in Tzaneen, South Africa. Carla Spencer skydived 14,000 metres, jumped from a waterfall, took part in water sports, camped in Blyde Canyon, stroked a cheetah, held a scorpion and was kissed by an elephant. The […]

A student at Rotherham College of Arts and Technology has shown true animal instinct after winning a place at one of England’s top veterinary schools. Stefanie Wallace (20), who finishes her BTEC Level 3, Animal Management course in June, has been accepted to study at the state-of-the-art School of Veterinary Medicine and Science through the […]

More than 100 students from Waltham Forest College showed off their creative flair on the catwalk in front of friends and family. Nearly two hundred people attended the Total Look Hair and Beauty Show, in the college’s new Learning Resource Centre which was transformed into a fashion cat-walk. Judge Emma Grayling, senior stylist with Toni&Guy, […]

Students put on a colourful show in front of proud parents. The first year students on West Thames College’s BTEC makeup design and hairstyling course put on a showcase event at the college’s Isleworth Campus. Choosing a style from the Elizabethan period to the 1960s, the talented students spent two months researching the costumes and […]

Hundreds of new apple trees were planted in the Worcestershire sunshine at a college. More than 40 people turned up to Pershore College to plant the estimated 260 Cheerfull (corr) Gold trees in the college grounds. The trees were donated to the college, which is part of Warwickshire College, by Dr Theresa Huxley to create […]

Two talented sports students from Solihull College have won scholarships to study in America after impressing top colleges with football skills. Jade Nash and Georgia Jones, who first met whilst playing for the under 10s at Solihull Borough FC, are currently in their final year of the BTEC Extended Diploma in Sport (Coaching, Development & […]

More than 120 students from Derby College will be working with official security personnel and Derbyshire Police to ensure the safety of participants and spectators of the Olympic Torch Relay through the city in June. Students, who have all undergone stewarding and door supervisor training as part of their public services’ course at Broomfield Hall, […]