Author: FE Week Reporter

City of Bristol College is offering a new nationwide Apprenticeship programme in pharmacy skills. The programme is the first of its kind to be delivered by the College and is aimed at meeting General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) requirements that come into force this summer. The new programme includes two separate routes: an Apprenticeship suitable for […]

North Hertfordshire College has launched a new campaign ‘NHC Support Young People’ which aims to support young people through education into rewarding employment. NHC wants local employers to pledge their support by signing up and offering work-related opportunities including apprenticeships, work experience, work placement, research projects, or setting up a student-run commercial enterprise. With youth […]

Lots of colleges (and journalist Jan Murray) attended a rather damp Chelsea Flower show 2011. Two of you lovely colleges shared your students’ successes with FE Week Two Bicton College floristry students won Young Florist of the Year medals: Charlotte Murrant, studying a Level 3 Diploma won a Silver-Gilt and Lauren Curry, studying for a […]

The Grimsby Institute has unveiled the HETAS Solid Fuel & Biomass Training Centre, the first phase of the brand new Engineering and Renewable Energy Centre, which will offer some of the foremost training of its kind in the United Kingdom. This new facility, based at the Institute’s Nuns Corner Campus, is the first training centre […]

Students and staff on college campuses in Cornwall are being offered on-the-spot skin tests to alert them to the risks of too much sunshine. The county has nearly twice the English average of malignant melanoma cases. Cornwall had 31 cases of malignant melanoma per 100,000 people between 2006 and 2008, the South West Public Health […]

High profile businessman Peter Jones, of Dragons’ Den fame, is set to launch his Enterprise Academy in the South West after Cornwall College, which also includes Duchy College, was named as the country’s second regional hub. The Enterprise Academy was founded by Peter Jones CBE in 2008 to nurture young entrepreneurial talent through further education, […]

Plans for a new university technical college (UTC) for Essex were submitted last week. Harlow MP Robert Halfon has been working closely with Harlow College to prepare a bid to bring a UTC to Harlow. The bid has has been publicly backed by a number of organisations. These include Harlow and District Chamber of Commerce, […]

‘Phyto Inspiration’ – the plants behind the arts – depicted a garden displaying the plants that have influenced and stimulated architecture, artists, musicians and poets over the ages.  In addition to securing a Gold award, Sparsholt College was also the winner of the Best Continuous Learning Exhibit. Designed and created by a team of 16 […]

Hadlow College in Kent is proposing to have its very own free school. The school will have a specialism described as a ‘rural ethos’. If successful, the ‘Hadlow Rural Community School’  will be a secondary school for pupils aged 11 to 16 and based on Hadlow College’s campus. If the land-based college is successful the […]