Author: FE Week Reporter

Students in the North-West discovered a love of reading when they signed up to the Six Book Challenge, a national initiative that encourages adults to read for pleasure. More than 162 Bolton College skills for life and work students completed the challenge, including John Mannion. “When I first heard about it from my tutors, I […]

A great-grandmother is this year’s Senior Learner of the Year. She’s now 94 but, as she tells Rebecca Cooney, she’s still signing up for courses A great-grandmother who got the learning bug in her 80s is now giving her skills back to the community and, at the age of 94, is still learning. Margaret Isherwood, […]

A group of 12 hospitality and catering students from Cheshire had the chance to experience Parisian cuisine when they visited one of the city’s Michelin-starred restaurants. The West Cheshire College learners looked round the Helene Darroze Paris, took part in a cheese-tasting session and explored traditional Parisian shops and bistros. Student Chantel Davies, 19, from […]

Builder Tommy Walsh, star of TV’s Ground Force, has opened a £3m construction workshop at Cambridge Regional College. John Malone, college head of construction and engineering faculty, said: “Tommy talked to the students about the opportunities available when they’ve trained to the high standards that we help them to achieve. “He told them they would […]

Around 560 students from 17 FE colleges up and down the country showed off their pants at London’s Old Spitalfields Market for an entrepreneurial Fairtrade challenge. They marketed, promoted and sold ethically sourced designer pants as part of a four-month real-life business challenge organised by the Gazelle Colleges Group and Fairtrade underwear brand, Pants to […]

Painting and decorating students from London have helped to brighten up a day centre for disabled adults. Barking & Dagenham College preparation for employment students Paul Bryant, Mark Fortune, Stephen Jeakins, Sean Taylor, all 17, and Charlie Ross and Ben Hopkins, both 16, painted the Maples Centre’s multipurpose room yellow, to match its overall colour […]

Young chefs ruffled some feathers at the South of England Show when they created chicken and egg meals for the hungry crowds. The theme of this year’s show was poultry, and the level one and two professional cookery diploma students from Central Sussex College used local ingredients to rustle up dishes such as Mexican huevos […]

A Weston College student’s scale model of the Titanic was too big for the bus so he pushed it 15 mile on a converted go-kart to his college. Level two art and design student Lorin Robinson, 17, created the model at his home in Clevedon, but as he doesn’t drive decided to push it on […]

Two Leeds apprentices have landed jobs at Leeds Grand Theatre. Grace Dean, 21, and Bethany Beal, 20, both completed cultural heritage operations apprenticeships through Leeds City College, developing and delivering education programmes, tours and events, before working part-time at the theatre until full-time recruitment started. Bethany is now a finance assistant at the theatre, while […]