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Colleges to get share of £42m to repair buildings

BBC Photo of the entrance to Telford College. It's a large, three-storey building with white columns holding up a porch over the entrance. There are floor-to-ceiling windows on the right-hand side of the building and its entrance, while the left-hand side is black and brown bricks. Over the entrance, there is a white sign with blue letters that reads, "Welcome to Telford College".BBC
The funding will be for 23 colleges in the West Midlands, including Telford College

Colleges around the West Midlands region will receive a total of £42m in funding to help repair and improve their buildings, the government has announced.

It is part of an overall £1.7bn investment nationally aimed at helping colleges to modernise buildings by 2030.

The money will go towards 23 colleges in the region and will help with repairing leaky roofs, fixing broken windows and updating worn-out heating systems.

Skills Minister Jacqui Smith said: "The young people in these colleges are the engineers, bricklayers and designers of the future, and they and the dedicated staff teaching them deserve the best possible environment to learn and succeed."

The Department for Education (DfE) said each college would receive individual allocations in the summer, ranging from £6,000 for smaller institutions to £7m for large college groups for the next academic year.

It follows the national announcement of £570m to increase capacity in colleges to train the next generation of skilled workers.

Full list of colleges benefiting:

  • Burton and South Derbyshire College
  • Halesowen College
  • Coventry College
  • Hereford College of Arts
  • Herefordshire, Ludlow and North Shropshire College
  • Hereward College of Further Education
  • NCG
  • Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group
  • North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College
  • Inspire Education Group
  • Sandwell College
  • Solihull College & University Centre
  • South and City College Birmingham
  • Stoke-on-Trent College
  • Birmingham Metropolitan College
  • Telford College
  • Walsall College
  • City of Wolverhampton College
  • Warwickshire College Group
  • Dudley College of Technology
  • Heart of Worcestershire College
  • Fircroft College of Adult Education
  • South Staffordshire College

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