Advanced engineering and aerospace training facility to be built at Leicester College

Leicester College has secured more than £5m from the Office for Students to fund three major higher education capital projects across its campuses.

As a result of the funding boost, the College will spend the next three years building an Advanced Engineering and Aerospace training facility and a combined study and social space, or “HE Hub”, at its Abbey Park campus whilst upgrading a range of equipment across multiple campuses.

It will add £500,000 of match funding to complete the three projects.

The new training facility will total more than 400 sq m and sit adjacent to the existing engineering facilities at Abbey Park.

Verity Hancock, principal of Leicester College, said: “We are delighted that our bid to the Office for Students was successful. This will enable us to make further significant investments in our facilities to strengthen our provision of first-class higher education for the next generation of technical experts and provide valuable progression opportunities for our current T Level students.”