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Pheasants meet their namesake at Sparsholt College Animal Management Centre

Sparsholt College Animal Management Centre has played host to a rather unusual re-union. Amongst the college’s Pheasantry, the Himalayan Monal or Impeyan Monal Pheasants met Andrew Impey, the great, great, great, great grandson of Lady Mary Impey, who, in the 18th Century, the species was originally named after. The big get together was the first […]

Praise for Havering College designers

Up-and-coming artists from Havering College of Further and Higher Education received the ultimate accolade from one of the top interior designers in the world. Martyn Lawrence-Bullard, a multiple award winning designer with A-list celebrity clients, has praised the talents of four students on the BA Fine Arts degree course. Los Angeles-based Bullard visited the college […]

Cornwall College Surf Science students recreate the last supper on Newquay beach

Cornwall College takes pride in having a classroom on the beach in Newquay but these students took the principle to the extreme when they literally picked up their desks and moved onto the sand, in the name of charity. The Surf Science degree students decided to create a calendar as part of their Personal and […]

Blackburn College hosts major collision

Students at a Blackburn College were given the opportunity to put the theory into practice during a mock-up of a major traffic collision. FMG Support, the UK’s leading vehicle recovery resource, and the Highways Agency, hosted a Major Incident Day to provide the emergency services with a live practice of their emergency plans. More than […]

On the move again to promote adult literacy?

How do we listen to people who have quiet voices? As public funding of adult skills gets tighter and tighter there is a strong argument for making sure it gets spent both on the highest priorities and with positive impact. Rather than dictating what those priorities should be, the current policy is to make the […]

Duke of York marches up to Newcastle-under-Lyme College for right royal visit

Newcastle-under-Lyme College (NULC) was given the Royal seal of approval when His Royal Highness the Duke of York paid a visit. The Duke visited to help promote the work of colleges in providing apprenticeships, work-based learning and business skills development. After meeting local dignitaries, His Royal Highness was given a tour of the college by […]

FE Week visits Poole for the launch of the Reed NCFE employability lab

L -R: Lawrence Vincent, Bournemouth and Poole College , James Reed, from Reed and David Grailey, NCFE The unemployment crisis is a top priority for the coalition government. With more than a million young people out of work, the focus is now increasingly shifting to the education sector, including FE, to help students successfully transition […]

Lawrence Vincent, principal, Bournemouth and Poole College

“I didn’t think I’d ever be a principal,” says Lawrence Vincent, who has been principal of Bournemouth and Poole College for the past four years, before adding: “I wasn’t a career academic.” Although the sentiment is often banded around, with Vincent, a man who openly admits that he is happier away from of the spotlight, […]

Staff pay should be left to the college to decide

I am a big fan of the AoC and have always believed a mature sector must have a pan-college body to argue on its behalf. However, I have always opposed the idea that such a body should even recommend, let alone tell me, how much I should pay my staff. Independence is a cornerstone of […]