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Construction Skills Academy

  • Money C

    Total Project Cost: £1.39m

  • Money C

    LGF Awarded: £0.93m

  • Idea C

    Status: Outputs completed with outcomes on track

Abingdon & Witney College’s Construction Skills Academy is equipping the county’s young people and adults with the skills needed to secure employment within a key sector in Oxfordshire.

In a county identified as having world-leading potential in innovation in low-carbon technologies, Abingdon & Witney College’s curriculum responds to this: with plumbing for renewable technology, electrical installation, carpentry and joinery.

It’s hoped that this shift in curriculum reflects Oxfordshire’s focus on capturing economic growth opportunities that emerge from the UK’s ambition to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Delivery Partner: Abingdon & Witney College

Bicester Csc Building (rgb)

The practical teaching space includes specialist technologies and equipment to ensure that the students are receiving the relevant skills.

The Construction Skills Academy comprises of three sites, with this project focusing on the new Bicester site, more development set to come on the Abingdon campus in due course and the Witney campus which already exists.

 

This means that communities and employers from around the county and the Oxfordshire economy as a whole benefit from the project.

Project impacts by 2025:

  • Group 747@2x

    Deliver 400 new apprenticeships

  • Group 747@2x

    Serve 240 new full-time students

  • Group 747@2x

    Serve 300 new part-time students