The announcement follows Chancellor Gordon Brown’s announcement in his pre-budget report of a planned major increase in the number of apprenticeships on offer across the country.
Under the college expansion plans, 100 full-time equivalent places will be opened up for 16-18-year-old students in the coming year. Registration for the places in various fields opens this month.
Barnfield principal Pete Birkett (pictured) said: “This is part of our continuing commitment to improving education in Bedfordshire. Our present qualification success rate is between 82-83 per cent and we are always striving to do better.”
