Author: FE Week Reporter

Students from City of Bath College took part in a life-changing experience as they spent a week on a charity project in Africa. The team of 15 students, plus staff, completed the community project in Gambia, where they built to a new grain store alongside villagers in Medina Salaam. They spent a week adding the […]

Carshalton College is celebrating after scooping a top award. The college has won the Website Category at the College Marketing Network’s 2011 FE First Awards following the launch of its new website earlier this year. They were congratulated on their strategy to engage key markets, relevant and up to date content and achieving the outcome […]

Students put on a dazzling display for their Christmas panto – oh yes they did! Lewisham College last week played host to six shows of their stage showpiece, The Awe-Ful Tale of Cinderella. The performance was made all the more impressive with the fact they have only been at the institute since September. Drama tutor […]

York College has announced a partnership with a theatrical production company. Over the coming months, students will be involved in supporting York Mystery Plays, using a variety of skills learned on college courses. Liz Moon, head of marketing at the college, said: “York College can offer much needed support towards the 2012 production. “To kick-start […]

TV star Mathew Horne was on hand to open a college’s new £1.2 million centre. The Gavin and Stacey actor offered words of wisdom to the students of Lakes College when he joined for the opening of a new 14 – 19 special education centre. The centre focuses on enhancing the development of the provision […]

A college is celebrating the fact that a group of its rugby players were selected to join a national training camp. Nine of Myerscough College’s Rugby Academy gained one of the fourteen places available in the Northern Region, to join the England Colleges’ Rugby Men’s Squad. The England Colleges Men’s squad is made up of […]

An online portal for the teaching of guitar, bass and drums has been developed at Weston College. As well as coming in to college for one-to-one lessons, students on Music Practice courses can experience tuition online and via an iPad app called iTutorus, developed by college music technician Richard King. Music courses curriculum manager Paul […]

A college has set up a secret Santa appeal to aid homeless people enrolled on its courses and in the local area. This Christmas, learners and staff at Grimsby Institute can donate Christmas gifts and food for Christmas Hampers for homeless learners in Grimsby. Stuart Owen, Communications Officer for the Grimsby Institute Group said: “Many […]

Performing arts students at Warrington Collegiate sang ‘Halleluyah’ when the Christmas Coca-Cola lorry visited their local supermarket. More than a dozen learners performed an excerpt from the college’s upcoming production, ‘Seussical – The Musical’, in hailstorm conditions as the iconic truck arrived at Tesco. Sindy Richardson, Curriculum Manager for Performing Arts at Warrington Collegiate, said: […]