The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education (Alex Burghart)
Today I am announcing details of the Government’s capital investment of £83 million in 2021-22 to help eligible post-16 education providers[1] accommodate the expected demographic increase in 16 to 19-year-olds. Post-16 Education Provider Local Authority Aston University Engineering Academy Birmingham Barton Peveril Sixth Form College Hampshire Bedford College Bedford Bilborough Sixth Form College (Better Futures MAT) Nottingham Brokenhurst College Hampshire Christ the King Sixth Form Lewisham Cirencester College Gloucestershire City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College (Potteries Educational Trust) Stoke-on-Trent City of Wolverhampton College Wolverhampton Dixons Sixth Form Academy (Dixons Academies Trust) Bradford Durham Sixth Form Centre County Durham East Kent College Group Kent Hereford Sixth Form College (Heart of Mercia Academy Trust) Herefordshire Hills Road Sixth Form College Cambridgeshire Huddersfield New College Kirklees Inspire Education Group Peterborough Itchen Sixth Form College Southampton Joseph Chamberlain 6th Form College Birmingham Kirklees College Kirklees Long Road Sixth Form College Cambridgeshire Luminate Education Group Leeds Luton Sixth Form College Luton Milton Keynes College Milton Keynes New College Pontefract (New Wakefield Collaborative Learning Trust) Wakefield Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College Leeds Peter Symonds College Hampshire Portsmouth College Portsmouth Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College Darlington Ron Dearing University Technical College Kingston upon Hull Runshaw College Lancashire Sandwell College Sandwell St Francis Xavier Sixth Form College Wandsworth St Vincent College (Lighthouse Learning Trust) Hampshire Suffolk New College Suffolk TEC Partnership North Yorkshire The Henley College Oxfordshire Woking College Surrey Wyke Sixth Form College Kingston upon Hull
Thirty-nine post-16 education providers have been awarded a share of the multi-million capital funding for projects that will enable them to add extra capacity where there is a pressing need to ensure there are enough places in their local area to absorb an increase in 16-19 learners. This investment will lead to providers being able to accommodate an extra 14,000 learners. We launched a bidding round for the funding on 18 May 2021. These post-16 education providers will be able to develop new high-quality flexible buildings and facilities, to ensure there will be sufficient places for 16-19 learners in their areas to gain the skills they need to progress and help the economy to grow.
The 39 education providers which will benefit from post-16 capacity funding are:
This investment should be seen in the wider context of our reforms to further education. The White Paper “Skills for Jobs Lifelong Learning for Opportunity and Growth” sets out our vision of enabling everyone to get the high-quality skills employers need in a way that suits them. The reforms set out plans to transform technical education, boost UK productivity, build back better from the coronavirus pandemic, and create a more prosperous country for all.
[1] Eligible education providers that could apply to this fund were: FE colleges, designated institutions, Sixth Form Colleges, 16-19 academies, including free schools, UTCs, Studio schools and Maths schools.
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