Author: FE Week Reporter

Cheshire performing arts students sold out a recent production of We Will Rock You, the musical based on songs by Queen. The show, which ran over three nights and sold nearly 400 tickets, featured more than 60 Priestley College BTec students in onstage, offstage and design roles. “The hardest part is living up to Queen […]

Former Really Wild Show presenter Nick Baker was the guest speaker at a Devon college’s animal and environment conference. Mr Baker, who has also hosted Spring Watch and Weird Creatures, was at South Devon College’s University Centre for the event early this month that covered topics including animal health, ecology, marine conservation and sustainability. It […]

A group of Kent pupils came face-to-face with reptiles, exotic birds and insects during a college tour to check out their post-GCSE options. Canterbury College welcomed 50 Year 10 youngsters from Charles Dickens School, Broadstairs, and treated them to taster lessons in animal care, hairdressing, beauty therapy, engineering and A-level subjects. Pupils fed the college […]

Young biology and chemistry boffins from Stockton Riverside College (SRC) Bede Sixth Form in County Durham collected gold, silver and bronze medals in the British Biology and Chemistry Olympiads. The national competitions, run by the Society of Biology and the Royal Society of Chemistry, are open to students studying post-16 sciences James Fryatt won gold […]

Students from the South West helped their lecturer to strike a chord in an innovative musical video project. Wiltshire College lecturer Patrick Williams was one of 20 people from around the world to sing in a virtual choir via Skype. Their performance of Eric Whitacre’s Seal Lullaby was produced and edited by creative digital media […]

A Rochdale sports student is in rugby heaven after signing a professional contract with St Helen’s Rugby League Football Club — nicknamed the Saints. Jack Ashworth, 17, is in his second year of a BTec diploma in sport, at Hopwood Hall’s rugby academy, which allows him to split his time between training and studying. Jack […]

Former world champion boxer Barry McGuigan has opened a new £5m college sports centre in Berkshire. The boxing legend joined East Berkshire College principal Katie Webb and chair of governors Tony Dixon at the opening ceremony, and later made time to sign autographs, answer questions and give advice to young boxers. He said: “The college […]

Young designers from Birmingham gave the city centre’s iconic bull statue a tennis makeover in time for the Aegon Classic women’s tennis tournament due to be held in the city just before Wimbledon. South and City College Birmingham HND fashion students Leigh-Anne Rogers, 25, Natalie Segelov, 18, and Minna Watson, 22, spent three weeks creating […]