Author: FE Week Reporter

Cheshire foodies got more than a culinary taste of India when hospitality and catering students teamed up with travel and tourism events management learners. A spicy four-course meal was backed up with holiday destination promotions during an Indian-themed night at South Cheshire College’s Restaurant on the Crescent. Chefs from Bombay Restaurant in Crewe oversaw hospitality […]

Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls dropped in on London adult college City Lit to launch a new book on stammering therapy. Mr Balls, who has a stammer, had been interviewed by City Lit speech and language therapist Jan Logan for a chapter in Stammering Therapy from the Inside – New Perspectives on Working with Young People […]

A football pitch on the roof and science labs that will focus on low carbon technology are just two of the features of Central College Nottingham’s proposed £70m city centre base. The building is planned for the Broadmarsh East area of the city and is expected to take up to five years to complete. The […]

Two Warwickshire College students are proving that they can cut it in the world of business after opening their own tree surgery company. Andrew Plester and Graham Bird launched P and B Tree Services last month with advice and support from the college’s enterprise board. And they’ve already turned 75 per cent of their quotes […]

More than 100 photography, art and media students at Dudley College had a rare treat when documentary and art photographer Martin Parr, UK head of the Magnum Photo Agency, talked about his experiences and work over the past 30 years. He described how photaography had changed since the 1970s and how his career had been […]

It was a day of firsts when the leader of the Welsh government visited a new £33m campus. First Minister Carwyn Jones met the first learners to study at Coleg Gwent’s state-of-the-art Blaenau Gwent Learning Zone. As well as construction, the campus, which opened in March, offers courses in art, media, IT and independent living […]