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A £2.3 Billion Strategy to Deliver Low Carbon Colleges and Skills Training for Workers
Posted on 7 May 2008
A two billion pound strategy to develop new low carbon colleges marks a radical new approach to the delivery of public buildings. For the first time, contracts will be required to spell out how they will deliver on-site apprenticeships and work-based learning.
Building Colleges for the Future outlines how over the three-year period to 2010–11, the LSC – on behalf of DIUS – expects to invest over £2.3 billion in capital projects, and to promote between £4 billion and £5 billion of development by colleges, schools and other providers.
It will provide every community with state of the art further education facilities, and over 150 colleges throughout England are set to benefit. The strategy will ensure that all new facilities are zero carbon by 2016, two years ahead of the Government's target for public sector buildings.
For the first time in any major procurement programme companies that are paid to deliver the work will be contractually obliged to invest in the skills and training needs of their staff, thereby ensuring that local people will benefit from new work opportunities. All contractors accessing public funds to build colleges will be expected to put in place formal training plans to maximise local people's access to work based learning.
The LSC and DIUS recognise that the rebuilding and modernisation of the FE estate is not an end in itself. They see capital investment as a key part of the drive to boost the UK’s productivity and global competitiveness; helping to secure capacity for high-quality Diploma programmes, improve employer responsiveness, and build a more specialised and vocationally excellent FE system to deliver the ambitions of the Leitch report.
Click here to read Building Colleges for the Future
Building Colleges for the Future outlines how over the three-year period to 2010–11, the LSC – on behalf of DIUS – expects to invest over £2.3 billion in capital projects, and to promote between £4 billion and £5 billion of development by colleges, schools and other providers.
It will provide every community with state of the art further education facilities, and over 150 colleges throughout England are set to benefit. The strategy will ensure that all new facilities are zero carbon by 2016, two years ahead of the Government's target for public sector buildings.
For the first time in any major procurement programme companies that are paid to deliver the work will be contractually obliged to invest in the skills and training needs of their staff, thereby ensuring that local people will benefit from new work opportunities. All contractors accessing public funds to build colleges will be expected to put in place formal training plans to maximise local people's access to work based learning.
The LSC and DIUS recognise that the rebuilding and modernisation of the FE estate is not an end in itself. They see capital investment as a key part of the drive to boost the UK’s productivity and global competitiveness; helping to secure capacity for high-quality Diploma programmes, improve employer responsiveness, and build a more specialised and vocationally excellent FE system to deliver the ambitions of the Leitch report.
Click here to read Building Colleges for the Future
