Author: FE Week Reporter

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 […]

A team from Kent police has visited trainee special constables at MidKent college to assess how well they are preparing for their voluntary duties. The team tested the group of public services students — all training to become volunteer police officers — on their stop-and-search techniques, and vehicle and open ground searches. Among the team […]

A London music student has been accepted on to a four-year course at a prestigious American college. Kacey Chambers, 19 and studying for a BTec extended diploma in music at City and Islington College, was persuaded by her tutor to audition for the Berklee College of Music in Boston, which counts 200 Grammy award winners […]

Artwork by a college student in London has been displayed at an exhibition in Monte Carlo organised by the former Empress of Iran. Mehrak Davoudi, a second-year foundation degree in creative arts student at Barnet and Southgate College, donated her work to the show, as did other Iranian artists. All the exhibits will be auctioned […]