Author: FE Week Reporter

Eighty students from City College Norwich took over a four-star hotel for two days as part of an unusual work experience. The catering and hospitality students ran the Holiday Inn Norwich North, including reception, housekeeping, bar management, food preparation, food service and health club duties. Jessica Owen, 17, who worked on the reception desk, said: […]

Young artists from Manchester are pinning hopes of a windfall on the Saatchi Gallery website, which is displaying their artwork as part of the Sunday Telegraph Art Prize Schools. The level three extended diploma in art and design students from Wigan & Leigh College, who are specialising in fine arts, have entered the competition for […]

Doncaster College catering and business students have created a sandwich for a new Subway store. The ‘Hub Sub’, a low-salt sandwich filled with meatballs, salami and salad, will be on sale for a month at the new Subway in Station Court, Doncaster. All the proceeds will go to charity. Gill Parkes, director of the academy […]

Sport students from South Gloucestershire and Stroud College jumped at the chance to spend time in a professional sports club and raise money for charity at the same time. Emily Wakefield, Lee Chandler, Daniel Strange, all 17, and Kelly Halliday 16, volunteered to raise money for The Fold, which cares for orphans in South Africa, […]

A young Birmingham chef was named best commis chef at the Oscars of the culinary world, the Bocuse d’Or, in Lyon, France. Kristian Curtis, 22, a recent graduate of Stratford-upon-Avon College, was supported by catering staff and students from his former college when he scooped the prize. Team UK, made up of Kristian and his […]

Rugby players swapped tries for trays in a bake-off for Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day. Chris Whitehead, Jack Yeandle and Carl Rimmer of the Exeter Chiefs joined catering students in Exeter College’s training kitchens to make cakes to sell to businesses across the city. Student Fenella Gilson, 16, said: “It’s great fun having them here. […]

Derbyshire hair and media make-up learners are guinea pigs in a research project into the effects of exercise on academic performance. Over the next eight weeks, the class from Burton and South Derbyshire College will take part in a range of fitness classes, such as aerobics and dance, as part of the Association of Colleges-supported […]

West Country students tickled shoppers’ funny bones when they invaded the Torquay branch of TK Maxx for Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day. From 11am until 2pm last Saturday, March 2 the South Devon College Student Union invited the public to get involved in a range of activities, including plate-spinning. Student liaison officer Roy Courtney, who […]