MP Andrew Selous has said he has high expectations of The Bedford College Group, which now includes Central Beds College at Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard, as well as Shuttleworth College near Biggleswade and multiple Bedford College campuses.
On March 1, 2023, Central Beds College became part of the Group which is now the seventh largest college in the UK, including Tresham College and its campuses in Northamptonshire.
The organisation is worth nearly £80 Million, with nearly 2,000 staff and 18,000 students.
The representative for South West Bedfordshire said: “I welcome the integration of Central Bedfordshire College into The Bedford College Group.
“There is now a very urgent requirement to get the engineering construction skills centre on Chartmoor Road in Leighton Buzzard to train the engineers and construction workers we desperately need, and the college needs to reach out urgently to employers across Central Bedfordshire to meet their training needs in areas like computer numeric control, and in many other disciplines as well.”
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