Derby College Group – an East Midlands Institute of Technology partner, delivering its courses – has been named as leading one of the Government’s new Construction Technical Excellence Colleges.
The Department for Education today (August 12th) announced it’s creating ten Construction Technical Excellence Colleges (or CTECs), with a £100million investment. Government says these will:
• train 40,000 construction workers (builders, bricklayers, electricians, carpenters and plumbers) by 2029;
• deliver well-paid jobs for British workers;
• support the construction sector (which has 35,000 job vacancies, according to Office for National Statistics estimates)
• deliver Government’s pledge to build 1.5million homes, plus schools and hospitals.
Derby College Group (DCG) has been named as the CTEC base in the East Midlands.
It and other colleges hosting CTECs will train students using a ‘hub and spoke’ model, working with other local training providers and employers to boost training standards and share expertise.
As with the East Midlands Institute of Technology’s other academic partners – University of Derby, Loughborough College, Loughborough University – DCG is already closely involved in providing quality technical education; delivering East Midlands IoT courses from T-levels through to higher education courses in professional construction, engineering and digital skills. All East Midlands IoT courses can be found at www.emiot.ac.uk
As with the network of 21 Institutes of Technology already established in England, which the East Midlands IoT is part of, the newly announced CTECs will support both young people breaking into the sector and established workers getting new skills for better paid jobs.
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said: “Construction Technical Excellence Colleges will enable us to invest in people and give them the skills they need to break down barriers to opportunity, in an industry which is essential to delivering growth through our Plan for Change.
“The colleges will soon be online to deliver high quality skills training.”
For today’s Department for Education announcement on CTECs see its website at www.gov.uk/government/news/40000-people-to-get-skills-in-new-technical-excellence-colleges
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