Collaboration Fund: Colleges to receive at least £100K

£5.4m College Collaboration Fund distributed to 20 colleges to share good practice and address common priorities
23rd July 2020, 12:27pm

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Collaboration Fund: Colleges to receive at least £100K

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The LTE Group and DN Colleges Group are among the 20 institutions that have been successful in bids to the £5.4m College Collaboration Fund. 

The Department for Education has today released the full list of colleges or college groups that will receive grants of at least £100,000 to ”collaborate and share good practice to address common quality improvement priorities”. The fund builds on the Strategic College Improvement Fund (SCIF). 

The first round of funding was cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak, but applications reopened in June. 


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Colleges were invited to bid for up to £500,000 and are expected to contribute total match funding equal to a minimum of 25 per cent of the total cost of the programme of work.

Each of the 20 colleges receiving funds has a partner college or colleges that they will specifically work with.

Colleges sharing best practice

Apprenticeships and skills minister Gillian Keegan said: “Now more than ever, it’s vital that colleges can support their students to gain the skills they need to progress and employers and our economy need to grow. This fund will help colleges work together, to develop cutting-edge digital approaches to online learning , to overcome new challenges and continue to deliver high-quality education and training for the communities they serve.

“The past few months have been a challenging time for the sector, but they have gone above and beyond to support their students. This additional funding will help to support further collaborative work as we move forward. I look forward to hearing more about their progress and wish them all the best.”

College Collaboration Fund: The full list of colleges

CCF lead college Partner colleges Dudley College of Technology Birmingham Metropolitan College, City of Wolverhampton College Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College Harrow and Uxbridge College, West Thames College, The Windsor Forest Colleges Group, Brooklands College DN Colleges Group The Sheffield College London South East Colleges East Sussex College Group Darlington College Middlesbrough College, Education Training Collective, Hartlepool College, Northern School of Art Wiltshire College and University Centre Bridgwater and Taunton College Cirencester College Strode College, Brockenhurst College, The Henley College, Petroc Wilberforce Sixth Form College Franklin Sixth Form College, John Leggott College, Scarborough Sixth Form College, Wyke Sixth Form College Truro and Penwith College South Devon College, Petroc Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group Shrewsbury Colleges Group The Windsor Forest Colleges Group Berkshire College of Agriculture Heart of Worcestershire College Grimsby Institute Lincoln College Grimsby Institute, DN Colleges Group, Grantham College, Boston College, New College Stamford Weston College Gateshead College The LTE Group (The Manchester College) Bury College, Bolton College, Hopwood Hall College, The Oldham College, Tameside College, Trafford College Group, Wigan and Leigh College Kendal College NCG (Carlisle College), Lakes College, Furness College, Askham Bryan (Newton Rigg College) Walsall College Birmingham Metropolitan College, National College for Advanced Transport and Infrastructure, South Staffordshire College Plumpton College Basingstoke College of Technology and EKC Group Fareham College Highbury College, Havant and South Downs College Heart of Worcestershire College East Durham College

 

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