Author: FE Week Reporter

Animal management students breathed new life into a community park with the planting of several donated trees. The hard-working youngsters got their hands dirty at the Lower Lines Park in Gillingham – next to MidKent College’s Medway Campus. Open to the public since 2010, the former Ministry of Defence land is managed by the Lower […]

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg became a cake decorator for the day during a visit to City of Bath College to meet young apprentices. Mr Clegg, who was joined on his visit by Bath MP Don Foster, met apprentices from several different industry areas at the college’s Shrubbery Restaurant, before trying his hand at cake […]

An assistant principal at Rotherham College of Arts and Technology swapped the warmth and comfort of the office for an afternoon of dirt and sweat as she went to work alongside construction students. Ann Hardy spent the afternoon work-shadowing a group of apprentices to see how they are settling in to their roles. She joined […]

City College Southampton student Sarah Jacobs is hoping to be a cut above the rest at a national hairdressing competition. The Level 3 hairdressing student will compete in the Wella Professional Xposure competition in London on March 8. Sarah will compete against over 15 other colleges and hair academies around the UK, where she will […]

Alfreton Town Football Club is launching the second phase of its Community Academy initiative. The latest development gives local young people the chance to gain sports leadership qualifications through a pioneering apprenticeship programme. The club, promoted last season to the Blue Square Bet Premier Division, works with Derby College to recruit the apprentices. The aim […]

Northampton College kicked off a global education initiative by hosting the 1,000mph Bloodhound Car as part of an innovative new programme to inspire the County’s budding Mathematicians, Scientists and Engineers A life-size replica of the Bloodhound car along with its V8 Cosworth F1 engine, which drives the rocket fuel pump, was based in the college’s […]

West Thames College’s talented makeup students performed live-demonstrations at the Treaty Shopping Centre in Hounslow. Stopping shoppers in their tracks with an incredible display of bodypainting and theatrical makeup techniques, the students also applied the makeup for a series of spectacular fashion shows organised by students from the University of West London and produced by […]

A group of Havering College apprentices employed by leading companies met Prime Minister David Cameron last month. Fourteen apprentices from energy giants EDF, technology company e2v and the Cycle Systems Academy – all taking Level 2 courses through the college – were on hand as the Prime Minister announced a new round of government funding […]