Nine General Further Education colleges across Greater Manchester have been collectively awarded £2.5m to increase innovation support to businesses throughout the city region.
The new project, the Greater Manchester Further Education Innovation Programme, which has been funded by Innovate UK through its Further Education Innovation Fund, aims to increase the role of Further Education Colleges in the expansion of innovation support to improve productivity across Greater Manchester.
Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, said: “This funding is a further boost for our ambitions to create the country’s first integrated technical education system. Innovation is key to making Greater Manchester a more prosperous place with a more productive economy, but we need to ensure its benefits are widely felt. This programme puts colleges and further education centres at the forefront of innovation, which is great news for students, businesses and our local economies.”
