Walsall College Construction students answered an emergency call from West Midlands Fire Service and put their skills to good use to help promote car safety. The Green Watch team at Walsall community fire station required a creative way to help drive home the importance of using car booster seats, for children under 12 or a certain height, and in their hour of need called upon the expertise of the college’s students.

A free event celebrating Wolverhampton’s rich engineering past - and its bright future - is being held at Bantock House Museum and Park as part of this month’s Enjoy Wolverhampton programme. The historic house and park, off Finchfield Road, is hosting the Discover Engineering Family Day on Saturday, July 9, from 10am to 4pm. Check out live experiments, vintage cars, have a go on the miniature railway and see - steam engines, armed forces vehicles, a JCB, as well as the University of Wolverhampton’s Formula 3 racing car.

Families hoping to save cash by going on holiday before the schools break up for summer could face millions of pounds worth of fines, according to new research from Santander UK. In the last full academic year (2014/15) parents were issued with an estimated £5.6 million worth of fines for unauthorised holiday absences. Parents across England and Wales can face fines if they take their children out of school early without prior permission.

Liam Byrne, MP for Hodge Hill, visited Marlborough Junior School in Small Heath in his constituency to see how City Year Birmingham is enabling young people to make a difference to pupils’ lives and their own. Part of youth social action charity City Year UK, City Year Birmingham launched in 2013 and began its partnership with Marlborough Junior School at the start of this academic year. The school benefits from a team of seven full-time City Year volunteers who are integral to the school day.

Walsall College is inviting prospective students to come and find out about its affordable university level courses at its HI:ED Open Day on Thursday 7th July, from 4pm – 7pm. Boasting a HI:ED achievement rate of 97% and a commendation from the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) for Higher Education, the equivalent of Ofsted, Walsall College offers a range of HNC, HND and degree Level 6 courses in subjects ranging from Construction to Hospitality Management and Fashion to Sport.

Walsall College Catering students received a masterclass in Indian cookery on Tuesday 28th June, when professional chefs from Five Rivers á La Carte restaurant in Walsall visited the college to show students how to prepare a range of authentic Indian dishes. Fine-dining north Indian restaurant, Five Rivers opened in Walsall in 2012 by a group of award-winning caterers, and in its first year won the West Midlands ‘Best Newcomer’ category at the national finals of the British Curry Awards.