Overview
- The Department for Education, which published the allocations on Wednesday, named 175 colleges sharing £307 million for building repairs and upgrades.
- A £56 million North West pot will fund works at 33 colleges, with sums ranging from about £6,000 for smaller institutions to up to £7 million for large college groups in the next academic year.
- Greater Manchester recipients include LTE Group at £3,448,343.82 and Salford City College at £2,569,037.64, with other named colleges across the city-region also listed.
- Other awards include Telford College at £995,256 and Herefordshire, Ludlow and North Shropshire College at £1,097,236, while Wirral Met is set to receive £1,187,503.66.
- Colleges will choose how to spend the capital to fix leaking roofs, broken windows and worn-out heating, as part of a £1.7 billion estate modernisation that rose by £5 million since last year and follows a £570 million capacity measure.