Author: FE Week Reporter

Bolton College held its first ever Jobs & Skills Fair to promote apprenticeships and tackle local unemployment. The event, held at the college’s £70 million Deane Road campus, celebrated National Apprenticeship Week with an Apprentice of the Year awards ceremony presented by former X-Factor contestant Laura White. Qurban Ali (left), motor vehicle apprentice of the […]

It is a case of lights, camera, action for students at Chesterfield College who have been selected to produce a training DVD. Students on the BTEC Media Production programme have been given the opportunity to work with Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service to produce a number of driver training DVDs over the next 12 months. […]

An award winning student from Tameside College will become one of the privileged few to carry the Olympic Torch when it passes through Manchester. Sport and Leisure student Alex Williams was nominated by the head of sport at the college, Karen Hunter, to carry the Olympic Torch. Karen recognised Alex as a truly inspirational person, […]

Blackburn College has introduced a range of innovative measures to fight back against the EMA replacement dubbed ‘inadequate’ by Barnardo’s. The North West college has implemented a fixed £10 per term travel pass, a free hot breakfast, free uniforms, equipment and kit, subsidised healthy lunch for 16-18’s and financial assistance towards the cost of essential […]

Students from City College Brighton and Hove have been digging deep into their creative minds. Paxton, a Brighton-based company which installs intelligent access control systems for buildings, provided the students with a brief to produce artwork to be shown in their premises. Following site visits and presentations from the company, nine students developed proposals influenced […]

Learners at Doncaster College have been performing in a new advertisement campaign to promote further education. Around 25 performing arts students danced and sang around the college as part of a music video entitled ‘Your future in the Mix’. The video, which was filmed by a team from Global Radio – known for running Galaxy […]

Bath Rugby Union stars have teamed up with Weston College to launch women’s touch rugby for students. Full-back Jack Cuthbert and prop, Nathan Catt, put the women through their paces at Weston-super-Mares Drove Road Rugby Club along with new England Rugby Football Union Development Officer, Julie Price, and Neil Davies, who runs Bath’s Touch Leagues. […]

Doctor Who actor Arthur Darvill (centre) was the star of the first seminar held by Birmingham Metropolitan Academy of Performing Arts (BMAPA) in 2012. Mr Darvill, who has played the character Rory Williams in the last three series of Doctor Who, shared his experiences of working as a voice and stage actor, musician and composer […]

A new £1.2m facility for teaching enterprise and entrepreneurship skills has been officially opened at City College Norwich. Gazelle entrepreneurs Priya Lakhani, founder of Masala Masala and SOCO, and Ben Ramsden, founder of Pants to Poverty, alongside City College Norwich Principal Dick Palmer, joined more than 100 students from City College Norwich and partner schools […]