Staff and students from the college's King’s Lynn, Wisbech and Cambridge campuses held a series of events from 14th-18th October to celebrate Colleges Week.
The day-long Love Our Colleges fair included musical performances by college performing arts students of songs from well-known musicals and popular artists, while hospitality and catering students had prepared a selection of sweet treats and savoury food to hand out at the event.
Hair and beauty students were also on hand to give other students and staff free mini hand and arm massages, as well as offering nail-painting and face stencilling. Students were joined by staff from various faculties from around the college. Other activities included a cross-college debate on topics such as fairer funding and how college builds employability.
Students had to fill in some of the reasons why they loved their college. One student said he loved his college because ‘it supports me to achieve my dreams’ and another commented ‘I love my college because it cares about the environment’.
The Love Our Colleges fair was held to support the nationwide Association of Colleges (AoC) initiative, Colleges Week. The aim of the week is to encourage students and staff involvement to highlight all the fantastic work colleges do, both internally and in the wider community to push the government for fairer funding for the FE community.
Principal David Pomfret said:
“Colleges already contribute so much to the fabric of people’s lives, working in partnership with schools, the wider community and businesses to offer education and training where everyone can achieve. I am delighted by the amount of support staff and students have shown during Colleges Week and I hope it will help us in our nationwide-push for fairer funding in FE.”
Colleges across England educate and train 2.2 million people every year and there is a growing acceptance that their role is vital in improving the country’s productivity and reducing the nation’s growing skills gap.