Author: FE Week Reporter

Young carpenters in Sussex have posed for the illustrations in two new textbooks. Central Sussex College carpentry and joinery students Sam Folkes, 18, Charlie Barber, 17, and Shaun Scofield, 18,  will feature in the City & Guilds textbooks due to be published later this year, after the college was approached to provide workshops and models […]

All the world’s a stage for Stratford-upon-Avon college dance students who will dance outside the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) as pre-show entertainment. The BTec level three dance students have devised a site-specific performance that is inspired by Shakespeare’s sonnets and uses the floors, pillars, staircases and walls of the theatre’s front-of-house areas. College dance lecturer […]

The National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) has launched a film to encourage more young people into apprenticeships in the care sector. The film features four current and former apprentices working in different roles across the sector discussing how an apprenticeship has benefited them. Lindsay Giess, 32, who features in the film, completed an advanced apprenticeship in […]

Raising money for charity was a piece of cake for public service students near Manchester. The Warrington Collegiate services students raised more than £80 for the ‘Peace of Cake’ campaign for the Peace Centre, which works to support victims of terrorism and their families. The students were thanked by mascot Hero the Bear and former […]

Prisoners at Eastwood Park women’s prison in Gloucestershire are learning to make luxury soap as part of a social enterprise. The scheme, launched by Weston College, employs eight women to design and manufacture the  soap to help to prepare them for life after they are released. One of the prisoners, who cannot be named, said: […]

Two entrepreneurial students in Yorkshire have whipped up a tasty business idea which they are marketing to fellow students. Lancaster and Morecambe College students Mathew Whelan and Mike Fort took the idea of the simple but messy method of microwaving a brownie in a mug and created the Lazy Bake, which gets rid of washing […]

A Surrey catering student cooked up a storm to be one of ten finalists for the 2013 Jamie Oliver Home Cooking Skills competition. Carshalton College level one hospitality services student Nelson Domebele,18, created ‘a meal for family and friends’, whipping up spaghetti bolognese with garlic bread followed by a chocolate dessert. Nelson said: “I chose […]

 An award at the Cleveland College of Art and Design remembers an outstanding student who always thought of others. Rebecca Cooney reports A young designer in Derbyshire has won a college award dedicated to a former student who lost her battle with breast cancer last year. Cleveland College of Art and Design (CCAD) student Charlotte […]

Hopwood Hall College students in Rochdale demonstrated their flair for retail by setting up a pop-up shop, and designing merchandise to celebrate the town’s heritage. The learners volunteered for a three-day residential scheme, run by the college, vInspired — a volunteering charity for young people — and the Retail Trust, to gain hands-on retail experience. […]