Some of the significant investments in skills provision in Lancashire are included here:
Skills Facilities
Investing in Lancashire's skills and education facilities
The Lancashire Skills Hub has made key investments in skills provision for both the workforce of today and the future workforce and continues to seek investment for Lancashire.
- Health & Social Care
- £2.5m invested
- Lancaster
Lancaster Teaching Block
University of Cumbria
The Lancaster Teaching Block is a £9m facility with 10 large classrooms and 220 seat lecture theatre.
The new facility provides capacity to train an additional 580 students, helping to meet the demand for health and social care services in Lancashire, which is increasing all the time due to an ageing population and improving life expectancy, with the result that some vacancies are getting harder and harder to fill.
Businesses looking to enagage students or utilise the facilities should contact the Enterprise and Innovation Lead on 01228 888743
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- Maritime Engineering
- £840k invested
- Fleetwood
Marine Engineering Centre – Fleetwood Nautical Campus
Blackpool & The Fylde College
The £1.2m Marine Engineering Centre opened at Fleetwood Nautical Campus in 2017. It is a state-of-the-art facility, designed in conjunction with industry, to provide first-class training in a real-world working environment which mirrors the facilities cadets will experience when working as officers at sea. It includes:
- a marine propulsion plant, including medium speed marine diesel engine with reduction gearbox and propeller shaft
- diesel generators, auxiliary boiler, pumps, purifiers, air compressors, heat exchangers and refrigeration training rigs
- equipment for machining, hand fitting and pipe forming
- a mezzanine teaching floor featuring touch-screen display monitor and individual work stations
The facilities are ideally suited to the needs of the Merchant navy and other maritime industries, to find out more contact Nautical Campus on 01253 779123
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- Advanced Manufacturing & Engineering
- £4.3m invested
- Chorley
Science & Engineering Innovation Centre
Runshaw College
The Science & Engineering Innovation Centre at Runshaw College is fitted out with cutting-edge industry standard engineering and science laboratories and workshops, following feedback from local employers and research into future industry needs.
The facility also houses a new main reception, offices, welfare facilities and full access via a fire lift linking both the old and new building.
The SEIC accommodates up to 400 new students across a wide range of engineering and science courses to complement Runshaw’s current provisions, including apprenticeships at all levels, to career degrees.
Engineering, manufacturing, science and energy sector businesses looking to utilise the facilities should contact 01772 642040 (justask@runshaw.ac.uk) for more information.