Leicester College has made a successful bid for funding from the Office for Students (OfS) to support a £1 million capital project. The funding will expand the College to expand its Higher Education (HE) offer and develop additional flexible study modes to attract more students.

Leicester College offers a range of ways for HE students to gain a university level qualification, from one-year full-time HNCs to part-time level 6 professional graduate certificates. The funding of £963,236 will enable the College to strengthen its HE offer and address skills shortages across five priority sectors - construction, creative, digital, health and professional/business services.

The OfS capital funding will be invested in relevant facilities across the College including:

• Creating new teaching space for HE Construction provision at the Freemen’s Park Campus

• Updating spaces at the College’s City Skills Centre to support the HE Creative offer

• Fitting professional filming equipment at the St Margaret’s Campus

• Updating ICT infrastructure to support workplace-based modern digital learning requirements for HE Computing and Business

• Creating immersive learning environments and replicating real-world hospital wards/clinics for HE healthcare education at the Abbey Park Campus

  
  

Shabir Ismail, Principal and CEO at Leicester College said:

“In the last two years, the College has supported over 400 HE students and this funding will strengthen our commitment to further developing our HE offer. By securing this funding from the OfS, we will be able to transform teaching spaces into dedicated, aspirational HE zones across our campuses, addressing previous under-resourcing and supporting graduate employability across key sectors.”

The Office for Students (OfS) is the regulator for higher education in England. It protects the interests of students by supporting a diverse and independent higher education sector.