Today the Department for Education has opened the
application window for employers, Higher Education and
Further Education providers to apply for
multimillion-pound capital funding, as outlined by the
Education Secretary at last month’s Skills
Summit.
IoTs will see businesses and education and training
providers working together to deliver provision to
learners that is highly sought after by employers, in
technical disciplines, particularly STEM (science,
technology, engineering and maths).
Education Secretary said:
Institutes of technology will play a vital role
driving our skills revolution with business and
unlocking the potential of our country’s young people
through better technical education. By bridging the
country’s skills gaps, these new institutions will
drive growth and widen opportunity.
This Government continues to invest in developing our
homegrown talent so British business has the skills
it needs and so that young people can get the
opportunities they want.
These new institutions will help tackle the skills gap
at a local, regional and national level and extend
opportunity to thousands of people.
IoTs are just one of the skills reforms outlined by the
Secretary of State on the 30 November at the Department
for Education’s Skills
Summit which brought together education
experts and some of the country’s top employers to
forge a new alliance to deliver a skills revolution.
Today we can confirm our aim to achieve a network of
IoTs across the country. We expect the first IoTs will
be open in 2019.
To apply register here
