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13 May 2026

Author: FE Week Reporter

Doncaster College student cooke-ing up a storm after taking to the stage at food fair

Doncaster College student Ben Cooke has been offered a work placement at two prestigious restaurants. The offers came after he attended the Cookery Theatre at the Festive Food and Gift Fair at Doncaster Racecourse in November. Seventeen-year-old Ben has been given the opportunity to work with chefs at the Ruddington Park and Swinton Park restaurants, […]

Cambridge Regional College goes green

Cambridge Regional College (CRC) has been given a top environmental award for its ambitious carbon reduction plans. The college was given a ISO14001 certification after proving it could lower its carbon footprint by up to 40 per cent over the next five years. Sarah Bearpark, environmental and sustainability manager at CRC, said the ISO accreditation […]

Discrimination: Time to educate the educated

What lessons should teachers and managers in education and training learn from one of the most appalling race murders in recent British history? What gains can we salvage from an incident that – in just a few moments of senseless and stupid bigotry – shocked a nation, destroyed a life, tore a family apart and […]

East Surrey College Principal gets Royal seal

A new principal has been appointed to East Surrey College. Following national search, the Corporation of East Surrey College has announced Jayne Dickinson as the new Principal and Chief Executive of the college. It follows a successful year for the college, which included completing a move into the new buildings, achieving Investors in People (Gold), […]

BBC 5 live investigates apprenticeships

Apprenticeship schemes which misuse taxpayers’ money is to be debated by leading figures in the FE sector on ‘5 Live Investigates’. The programme, which will be broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live at 9pm this Sunday, includes interviews with a number of apprentices who have been left both out of pocket and without a qualification. […]

David Hughes: Challenges and chances for learners in 2012

In honour of the new strapline for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, FE Week asked two further education (FE) experts, David Hughes, chief executive of NIACE, and Toni Pearce, NUS vice-president for FE, what they thought the “New Challenges, New Chances” would be for learners this year. It is all too easy to […]

Apprenticeship sales force enrol themselves

Call centre staff at a training provider have enrolled onto an apprenticeship programme to improve their skills. Twenty workers at Intraining, part of NCG (formerly Newcastle College Group) have also joined the programme so they can offer support to those inquiring about apprenticeships. Each apprentice will be “assigned two hours of assessment time and two […]

Simon Bartley, president, WorldSkills International

Simon Bartley’s school memories could have come straight out of an Enid Blyton novel. Educated from the age of eight at a Catholic boarding school in Lancashire, by the sounds of it, he enjoyed an idyllic childhood filled with tuck boxes and wholesome boyish pursuits. “There used to be a school train just like in […]

UTC scuppered by college and university dispute

A college principal which helped create the University Technical College (UTC) model has been forced to postpone her own bid. Stella Mbubaegbu, principal of Highbury College, has been unable to finalise a UTC proposal because of a leadership dispute with the University of Portsmouth. Paul Whittle, who worked on the UTC bid for Highbury College, […]