City politicians and colleges win their battle to get funding for Birmingham colleges to provide apprenticeships
The Government has backed down after announcing Birmingham colleges would be denied funding to provide urgently-needed apprenticeship courses.
Ministers are now set to announce that the funding will be made available after all.
City MPs expressed fury after the Department for Education published a list of colleges in March which will receive funding to provide apprenticeships - and no colleges in Birmingham were included.
Apprenticeships Minister Robert Halfon agreed to meet MPs to discuss their concerns, after he was told the Government was “destroying technical education for 16-year-olds in the West Midlands”.
