Author: FE Week Reporter

A prizewinning student tells Rebecca Cooney how an adult education college is helping her to achieve her dream A mum-of-two who fled political unrest in Eritrea and studied English to try to fulfil her lifelong ambition to become a nurse has earned the Building Life Skills Through ESOL prize as part of Adult Learners’ Week. […]

A local college is helping five young Bolton mums to balance home life and career development. Bethany Sutton, 18, Samantha Norris and Natalie Davies, both 19, and Amy Mason and Chelsea Stringfellow, both 20, are all enrolled on courses with Bury College. Their studies include work at Bolton’s Rosehill Nursery — where their children are […]

Art students from Bracknell & Wokingham College have made the drawings of local primary schoolchildren into a permanent mural on a town underpass. Students painted the mural, designed by children from Wooden Hill Infant School, after their original drawing, printed on to a plastic coating material stuck to the underpass, began to peel off. College […]

A trainee chef studying at Salford City College’s Walkden Sixth Form Centre has been offered jobs at two high profile restaurants. Stuart Fraser has been ofafered posts at London restaurant Hix and at Sam’s Chop House in Manchester. The 18-year-old level three hospitality and culinary arts student, from Lower Broughton, impressed chef Mark Hix during […]

The tale of a boy who jumps in and out of a newspaper before dying helped three media students win best animation at the Staffordshire Film Festival. Solihull College 18-year-olds Laura-Jane Gregory, Rhiannon Lloyd and Jessie Doyle developed the idea from the opening credits of Russell Howard’s Good News television programme. Their two-minute film, One […]

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 […]