Author: FE Week Reporter

A young chef from Lincolnshire has joined celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s Maze restaurant in London. Scott Brackenbury, 17, who is completing a catering apprenticeship at Boston College’s restaurant, was given just two days’ notice to attend a trial day at the top restaurant. Staff were so impressed that they offered him a job as commis […]

A four-storey staircase will become Mt Everest for a day this month at Canterbury College. Rebecca Cooney explains why A team of Canterbury College staff is planning to climb the height of Mt Everest  — without leaving the college. The 13 members of the college’s estate team, led by estate manager Craig Nimmo, will go […]

Young musicians in the North West sounded out their new recording studio at a recent launch night. Lancaster & Morecambe College learners playing at the event includ the headline act, rising Lancaster talent Katy Pickles, 18, who has just recorded a five-track EP at the college’s new LMC studios. Katy, who studies HNC level four […]

Practical skills students are putting together an off-road buggy to learn how motor vehicles are constructed. The South Cheshire College entry level learners have just two weeks to learn how to read technical diagrams,  use a range of different tools, and how to solve problems on their own. Lecturer Matt Duncalf said: “This fantastic project […]

Staff at a London college gave away free copies of their favourite books to mark World Book Night. Richmond upon Thames College library staff Helen Berry, Melanie Jones and Patricia Nicholls,  with  Cait Orton of student services, joined 20,000 others across the UK and Ireland as nominated ‘book givers’ who were sent free copies of […]

A young London tailor has won the Rising Star Silver Shears Award at the ‘Oscars’ of tailoring. Yan Zhang, 22, from East Ham, who recently completed a fashion degree at Havering College of Further and Higher Education, scooped the prize at the Golden Sheers Awards at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall in London’s Threadneedle Street. Yan […]

A group of 12 hair and beauty students from Warwickshire College have been visiting Warwick Hospital to offer massages, manicures and hairstyling to patients. The learners are working with Kissing It Better, a national charity that enables local community members to use their specialist skills to make a difference to the care of patients and […]