Author: FE Week Reporter

Middlesbrough College students were part of a head-to-head cook-off between their lecturer and a former student. The level three professional cookery students were split into teams working for tutor Steve Donnison and Matty Beadnall, now a sous chef at Rockliffe Hall. More than 30 diners at the college’s training restaurant chose between a menu prepared […]

An apprentice from Yorkshire is jetting off to Greece after landing her dream job for a global travel organisation. Brittany Stubbs, 20, was struggling to find work before she enrolled on an administration apprenticeship programme at Doncaster College, which involved a mixture of level two technical business and administration qualifications, and level one ICT, maths […]

Dreams came true for a group of young people London when they staged a spectacular production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at a West End theatre. More than 200 youngsters, led by learners from Havering College of Further and Higher Education, took part in the one-night-only performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical at […]

Apprentices in Derbyshire swept the board in a ‘super-merchant sweep’ challenge to win equipment from a local building supplies merchant. The six Derby College apprentices had 60 seconds each to dash around a branch of Travis Perkins in Ilkeston, Derby, filling a wheelbarrow with equipment worth £250. Carpentry and joinery apprentice Zack Haslam, 17, was […]

Young animators in London have won a national competition with their one-minute film about a frustrated penguin. BTec animation students at The College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London submitted the film, Flightless Birdie, to an under-18s award at the Animated Exeter Festival, the largest festival of its kind in the UK. Student Melda […]

Finance skills were on the menu when MP Nicky Morgan saw how Leicestershire students were learning to manage money. Ms Morgan, Cons, Loughborough, joined learners at Loughborough College in ‘The taste of money’, a challenge that introduced them to dining on a budget. Chef team leader Stuart Finn produced a range of dishes for very […]

A music review by a student in Somerset has attracted attention from the Glastonbury festival organisers. Strode College A-level student and aspiring music journalist Rhys Buchanan, 17, from Street, reviewed the festival’s emerging talent competition for a local magazine. Glastonbury organisers saw a link to his review on Strode’s Twitter account, and re-tweeted it to […]

Business students in Lancashire got a lorry-load of information about careers in logistics when they visited a local transport company. Students at Nelson and Colne College Sixth Form heard about a range of roles, from warehouse manager to driver to accountant, from Kibble Transport boss Matthew Kibble. He also treated them to a tour of […]