Author: FE Week Reporter

Learners from South and City College Birmingham are offering their building skills and services to local cricket clubs. The college and the Warwickshire Cricket Board, which is based at Edgbaston Stadium, have agreed a partnership through the ECB NatWest Cricket Force Programme that will allow construction students to gain work experience, while giving a helping […]

Emotions ran high at an annual celebratory evening as students from Stoke-on-Trent College were recognised for their achievements. The learners, their families and special guests heard tales of triumph during the college’s annual Celebrating Success evening, held at the Kings Hall in Stoke on June 20. Major winners included first-year interactive media student Rhona-Anne Breeze, […]

Students at a Staffordshire College finished in the top 10 of an artillery competition for the fourth year in a row. A team from Buxton and Leek College took part in the Junior Leaders’ Naval Field Gun Challenge at naval base HMS Collingwood in Fareham, Hampshire. In the competition teams raced to assemble an antique […]

Relay racing, tug-of-war, cricket and benchball — it was all in a day’s work for Cheshire students. Around 40 entry level learners teamed up to take part in South Cheshire College’s annual sports day on its multi-use games area. It was organised and supervised by students on the sport and active leisure BTec level one […]

A voice coach broke from her busy schedule warming up the vocal cords of tomorrow’s stars to train young singers in Kent. Jai Ramage, vocal coach on The Voice, spent two days refining the talents of students at MidKent College. Jai, who has also starred in a number of major West End musicals, taught students […]

Hampshire students were banking on their idea for a customised clothing to win a business award — and an iPod each. And the team of Eastleigh College business and enterprise students won the Barclays Built for Business competition in which they pitched a business idea, working within a budget of £10,000. Their idea was Revamp, […]

A keen sportswoman from a Cheshire college has been selected to play for England in the Women’s Rugby League World Cup next month. Danielle Bound, from Longford and a student at Warrington Collegiate, said she was “overwhelmed” with the news that she will play for her country at Headingley Stadium against stiff competition from Australia, […]

Two Cheshire dancers came in for life-changing news after bringing the house down with performances in The Immortal Swan. Cronton Sixth Form College 18-year-olds Sophie Hind and George Cartwright were both offered places at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (Lipa) after its head of dance Sarah E Baker saw the show. George received a letter […]

A 34-year-old music technician’s dreams have come true as he joins the Status Quo line-up. Chris Henwood reports Status Quo, the legendary rockers who have racked up 60 UK hits over nearly half a century, have turned to FE to find someone to bang their drums. City and Islington College music technician Leon Cave has […]