Wehave teamed up with England Volleyball to put on a FREE taster coursefor FESCOs, lecturers and sports coaches which will enable them toexperience the Volleyball Young Officials course. The adapted 3.5 hourcourse will give an insight to the award and the experience andexpertise needed to deliver the course to students aged 14-19 yearsold. Participants attending the course will receive a tutor pack,including all the …

The‘Loughborough Flames: Lighting the Way to 2012 and Beyond’ project is aunique and innovative sports leadership programme piloted byLoughborough College, in partnership with the British Heart Foundation.The project has now been awarded the London 2012 Inspire Mark,following a hugely successful sports festival event hosted at thecollege in May, attended by special guest and Olympian Steve Cram.Inspired and driven by 2012, the project aimed to …

A South Nottingham College student has won an “Outstanding Regional Individual Award” as part of Adult Learners’ Week. He was presented his award by Princess Anne. Tom Birch, aged 20, from Heanor, beat all odds of surviving an accident during his time as a Marine in Afghanistan and after learning to walk and talk again, is now a qualified gym instructor. Tom suffered a …

A South Nottingham College student has been selected for the England U21 Basketball squad after nearly having to give up the sport because of a medical condition. Jamell Anderson, 18, from Clifton was told there was a chance he would not survive two operations to treat Wolff-Parkinson syndrome (WPW). He could have taken a regular course of drugs to keep his condition under control …