Author: FE Week Reporter

Students and staff at Grimsby Institute recently heard Humberside and North East Lincolnshire Police officers explain a hate crime – and how it is investigated. The talk was one of several activities at the college to mark Diversity Week. Students also listened to an an inspirational talk from Paralympian Jamie Carter, and enjoyed activities that […]

The Princess Royal met the best trainee butcher in the country at the Meat Training Council’s annual prizegiving. Joshua Brown, 21, from Wolverhampton, collected the new Best Meat Apprentice of the Year award and £250 after being nominated by Telford College where he is studying food production. Joshua, an apprentice butcher at Essington Fruit Farm, […]

Aspiring golfers will be able to study for a sports qualification alongside professional golf coaching when a Birmingham college opens its new golf academy. Stourbridge College, which has teamed up with Hagley Golf and Country Club, has already started recruitment for the course, due to run from September. David Faulkner, golf co-ordinator at Stourbridge, said: […]

Students at a London college are hitting the headlines. But they haven’t got the tabloids on their trail — the headlines are in their own magazine that they can get hot off the press. The Richmond upon Thames College learners can read all the latest news about their campus and their achievements in Celebrate, Richmond’s […]

A North Yorkshire principal showed his college’s support for fair trade by putting his foot down – in paint. Mike Hopkins, principal and at Middlesbrough College, painted his soles blue and green to match Fairtrade’s Take a Step in 2013 campaign logo. He said: “Raising awareness of Fairtrade and the plight of farmers in the […]

London bakery apprentices are providing fresh bread, rolls and buns three days a week for staff at their college. The apprentices, who work for Morrisons supermarket while studying at Barking &Dagenham College, have opened a staff shop to give them the chance to develop their skills. Some of their specialty products sell out within minutes. […]

When FE minister Matthew Hancock dropped in on a Suffolk college, students soon showed him that everything was more than shipshape. The minister was treated to whistle-stop tour of Lowestoft College’s specialist engineering and maritime facilities, including a 19m wind turbine tower for training wind farm workers, and a simulator of a ship’s bridge. Principal […]

Young photographers are helping Doncaster Archives to uncover local history. BTec national diploma students at Doncaster College are printing photographs from glass plate negatives made as far back as the turn of the last century by local photographers Luke Bagshaw and Edgar Scrivens. Student Lauren Taylor, 18, from Bessacarr, said: “It’s exciting to see the […]

Around 70 students at Sheffield City College have had their achievements recognised with ‘spark awards’ presented during an evening of music, dancing and skills. A crowd of local VIPs and parents were wowed by dancing and music displays, with catering and hospitality students whipping up canapés. The college’s glass atrium became a runway for aviation […]