Author: FE Week Reporter

City College Plymouth’s Chinese foundation students were given the opportunity to meet the competing Chinese team at the America’s Cup World Series – a week-long international sailing regatta televised to millions of people around the world. The students were given an insight into the planning and training involved in sailing the 45-foot wing-sailed catamaran. It […]

West Cheshire College has broken the world record for holding the most Mohican haircuts in a single room. Hairdressing students were at the new Ellesmere Port campus to help create the iconic cuts and set a new world record of 109 people. Staff and students recorded the achievement in front of an official adjudicator from […]

Watch out this week for Bournemouth & Poole College’s (BPC) performing Arts student Tammy Payne who’s landed a front line role in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks. Tammy, who left BPC to go to drama school in London and was always regarded as an exceptionally talented student.  It came as no surprise to college […]

A trio of college French students who are university bound boosted their language skills by working in a French hotel over the summer. Jasmine McNulty, Aine McTiernan and Katie Bliss teamed up with staff at the Cevenol Hotel in the town of Millau near Montpellier in the South of France. The group spent several weeks […]

Michelle J Parker, an artist blacksmith and lecturer at Warwickshire College has won the title of ‘World Women’s Blacksmithing Champion’ at the ‘European Biennial of the Blacksmiths’ in Tuscany, Italy. The competition attracted blacksmiths worldwide who came together to exchange ideas and innovations, but most importantly, to compete for the coveted championship titles. Michelle is […]

Prime Minister David Cameron, MP for Witney in Oxfordshire, officially opened Abingdon and Witney’s Construction Skills Centre ‘Avenue One’. The Centre was established as a collaborative project by The West Oxfordshire Learning Partnership – a partnership between the college and local schools. Mr Cameron said that ‘Avenue One’ was “an excellent example of a partnership […]

Walford and North Shropshire College agriculture students had marathon expectations  when they set out to plough over 80 hectares in their 24 hour ploughing marathon. The students enjoyed the event and took great delight in judging the quality of each other’s ploughing.  Student Ollie Owen said: “It was a good day, we had some fun […]