The University of Brighton has secured new funding to develop degree apprenticeships in construction management and the built environment.

A total of £119,823 will be used to create a new apprenticeship route for the existing Construction Management degree, which will be ready for the first apprentices to start in September 2018.

The funding is part of a total of £4.8 million being awarded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England to universities and colleges across England to develop new degree apprenticeships for students starting in September next year.


Developers East Sussex and the Skills East Sussex construction forum supported the University on its funding application by quoting Construction Industry Training Board's figures which state the construction sector will need 230,000 new workers by 2020.

Professor Stephen Denyer, the University's Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education and Student Experience, said: "The university's School of Environment and Technology has a well-established curriculum offer in construction and built environment, and we are delighted to be developing degree apprenticeship routes in response to employer demand from our Industry Advisory Board."

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