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A Prospectus for Capital Investment in Further Education Colleges in the West Midlands Foreword Andy Street, Mayor West Midlands Combined Authority A prospectus for capital investment in further education colleges in the West Midlands Foreword Andy Street, Mayor West Midlands Combined Authority Covid-19 has impacted It is therefore vital that the region’s We need a new approach – one leaders work together, across the which recognises the importance of on businesses and public, private and voluntary sectors, collaboration, across colleges and communities across the to ensure that our economy emerges with employers. We also need new stronger and more productive than investment - with industry-standard world. The UK is entering before. This means working together kit and facilities to support higher level its deepest recession in in new ways, to mitigate the social technical learning. the post-war era, where and economic impact of the virus and provide our businesses and individuals This prospectus is a welcome step we expect the West with the support that they need. in that direction – where all of the Midlands to be one of region’s colleges have worked Pre-Covid, our Local Industrial together, with the West Midlands the hardest hit regions. Strategy and our Regional Skills Combined Authority, to identify what Plan had set ambitious goals for support is needed to underpin our our region. We had begun to make economic growth. progress towards these goals – with increasing levels of employment and This document provides a welcome productivity, and growing skills levels route map for the investment across our population. As we chart a required over the next five years. The course back to the economic growth prospectus sets out a vision for an FE we were seeing before the pandemic, estate which provides a good standard we know that improving our region’s for all learners; a digital infrastructure skills will be critical to our success. that can support flexible delivery of learning and training; and specialist The West Midlands has seen technical facilities that will underpin a significant increases in the number growth in technical skills, including for of people with qualifications at the new Technical Levels. level 3. However, we know that future jobs will require even greater This document sets out the way numbers of people skilled to this in which we in the West Midlands level, in a range of new occupations, are working jointly, to tackle and many involving greater technical and respond to future challenges technological skills. and opportunities. I commend these proposals and look forward FE Colleges are essential to the to continued discussion with development of these skills in both Government about the need for our young people and our adults – future capital investment in the helping them to re-train and upskill, region’s FE sector. to take advantage of the new jobs that will be created. We have some excellent facilities in our colleges, but this is not universal and recent years have seen lack of sustained and strategic investment in our FE estate. 2 College West Midlands College West Midlands 3 4 College West Midlands Foreword David Hughes, Chief Executive Association Of Colleges Colleges in the West They will be where businesses look for their productivity. That’s what capital advice and services as they emerge investment does – it improves the Midlands are vital to from lockdown and develop new ways quality of the student experience and the COVID recovery of working in a technology rich world leads to better outcomes. where new skills will be indispensable. that’s needed in the They will be anchor institutions for The prospectus also helpfully sets economy, labour market investment as the Government and out the digital infrastructure needs and across the diverse the Mayor of the West Midlands craft at a time when we have seen just their plans for a better future. how important online learning is. The communities of forthcoming academic year, with the region. They will To be able to deliver, though, colleges social distancing requirements, will need the right investment in physical see most students partly studying provide the local focus and digital infrastructure. After a online, using new technology to for people to get the decade of neglect during austerity, enhance their learning. That requires skills they need to the investment needed is both urgent urgent investment now to be ready to and far-reaching. Colleges have provide the best possible experience prosper in a changed worked hard to invest themselves, for all learners and to deliver the and competitive but the funding regime has been too platform which will make blended tight to allow for the right levels across labour market. and hybrid learning the new normal every college. in subsequent years. This prospectus is therefore a timely The colleges in the West Midlands and very important step towards have done a great job in collaborating a better future. It also shows how on this prospectus. They have set important it is to get this right. In all down a challenge to the Government of my visits to colleges in the West and offered up an opportunity too. Midlands I see impressive work going A challenge to release the funds on, often in premises which are state announced in the March 2020 Budget of the art, but sometimes in premises by the Chancellor when he recognised we urgently need to improve. I the burning need to improve the always leave proud of what colleges college estate. An opportunity to do, angry about the lack of proper spend that quickly on the priorities investment and thinking about how much more colleges could do with which are so cogently set out in the better funding. prospectus and to have an impact in time to support a better future as Students want to study in good the country eases out of lockdown, accommodation with up to date facing enormous economic and facilities and equipment, matching social challenges. the industries and businesses they are training for. Employers want to I am optimistic that the Government employ people familiar with their recognises that challenge and working environment and equipment. will seize the opportunity. With This prospectus shows how that the support of the West Midlands investment can deliver in the priority Mayor, this prospectus will provide sectors for the West Midlands and the platform for a long term capital we know that would result in more investment strategy which will secure students studying the right things a better future for thousands of and more employers able to improve people and businesses. College West Midlands 5 Executive summary During the austerity Further, in the predicted Post Covid 19 required. Further there are significant recession, the West Midlands is likely maintenance costs facing colleges years there has been to be one of, or indeed the most, badly in the near future to ensure that the little strategically affected regions in the UK. The region existing good and better estate does faces the combined effects of a major not deteriorate in the coming years coordinated and decline in demand in the automotive and further costs associated with planned investment in and aerospace sectors, the loss of the redevelopment and repurposing the further education substantial business in the leisure, of elements of the existing estate. tourism and hospitality sectors and an Collectively the operation of poor estate in the West accelerated decline in retail shopping. condition estate hampers colleges’ Midlands region ability to deliver against the 2050 As a formal partnership of the carbon zero target. in support of the region’s 21 further education colleges, development and Colleges West Midlands recognises Investment of some £471m is required the need to raise the technical skills to ensure all of the region’s estate is delivery of technical of young people and adults in further good or better standard. learning. This limited education, to support the upskilling and uncoordinated of the region’s work force and to Limited investment in the region’s promote inclusive growth. In pursuit further education estate has also investment presents a of this aim Colleges West Midlands stifled college’s ability to develop risk to the region’s future has undertaken a formal assessment industry standard facilities to fully of the ‘fitness for purpose’ of the support the region’s business and economic development. region’s further education estate employers. This is particularly true in and in particular, given its emerging the development of advanced and importance, the digital capacity and higher level technical training facilities capability of the region’s colleges. and is most marked in capital-intense sectors like advanced manufacturing This prospectus identifies both the and engineering, building pressing need and the significant technologies, digital technologies, and opportunities which exist to reinvest in health and life sciences. These are the region’s further education estate the priority sectors underpinning the and digital capacity. It is estimated region’s future economic development that, in total, some £636m capital and prosperity. The region has investment is required over the next secured funds for two new Institutes of five years to ensure colleges are Technology and some capital funding resourced adequately to deliver the to support new T levels. Whilst helpful regional skills plan, with fair access these investments are unlikely to to high quality learning resources be sufficient to provide the facilities for all learners. This equates to an and resources needed to deliver the investment of just over £500 per each regional skills plan and to support learner the region’s further education the region’s economic recovery post colleges will support in this period. Covid-19. Currently 21% of the existing college Further investment of some £89m is estate is in poor condition. There is required in the development of new an uneven distribution of poor estate facilities and resources for advanced across colleges.
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