Humber Colleges Team Up for Energy Skills Centre of Excellence

Five Humber Colleges have come together with the Humber LEP to build on their current offer to create a Humber Energy Skills Centre of Excellence.

Bishop Burton College, East Riding College, Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education, Hull College Group and North Lindsey College are working with the Humber LEP through the Hull and Humber City Deal process to develop the Humber Campus.

The project will utilise existing facilities and expand them to present a joint offer to the energy sector to increase capacity and delivery as it develops.

The first phase, totalling £3.1m (£1.245m of FE capital funding won by the Humber LEP through the city deal, matched by £1.9m from the colleges) will see a rapid programme of capital works at the sites to improve and establish training facilities linked to the expanding renewables sector.

This will offer local people better access to education and jobs by supporting approximately 1,500 additional learning opportunities for adults over 3 years.

Future phases will involve work with colleges, private training providers and the University of Hull to ensure that the Humber has the skills and training facilities to support the sector. The work is being led by the LEP’s Employment and Skills Board, which is made up of business and education leaders.

Press release, January 8, 2014