Collaboration led by Leicester College awarded £3m grant to boost training and skills opportunities

A collaboration of local colleges, led by Leicester College, has been awarded a grant of £3m from the Department for Education’s Local Skills Improvement Fund (LSIF) to fund a range of new projects focused on decarbonising transportation, encouraging green leadership skills, digital upskilling and employer skills training.

LC CampusThe collaboration includes Leicester College, Loughborough College, North Warwickshire & South Leicestershire College and SMB College Group.

More than £200m has been announced as part of a funding boost to support colleges and training providers to offer more high-quality training opportunities in key industries, including the green sector. Leicester College will receive a part of the £165m funding to work collaboratively to meet the employer skills needs identified in the local area’s Local Skills Improvement Plans.

This will provide local businesses with access to the skilled workforce they need to grow.

The funding will support four key projects:

Decarbonising Transportation: Delivering skills training through seven new LSIF-enabled courses for industry at levels 3 and 4, covering current and future green transport technologies to drive a step-change in becoming Carbon Neutral.

Green Leadership Skills (Cross-sector): The collaborative development of short contextualised, level 3 courses including a new ‘Green Leadership Health Check Tool’ for leaders, managers and decision-making staff within organisations to assess the viability of implementing sustainable energy/waste/building technologies.

Digital Upskilling: Creating easy-access, flexible, short courses/units/modules between levels 3-5 for Digital Skills in business, including digital marketing, social media, cloud computing, data analytics and an introduction to Artificial Intelligence.

Employer Skills Training (including Harborough): Reviewing Further Education training options across Harborough and the surrounding districts. This will include adult provision and ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) across Leicestershire. The project will include a Training Needs Analysis and a review of travel to learn times/zones and options across Leicester and Leicestershire.

By Mark Adair – Correspondent, Bdaily

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