Bedfordshire students may build new Universal Studios Great Britain
Bedford College Group in the county is one of 10 given part of a £100 million pound government fund to help create 40,000 UK construction jobs.
A Bedfordshire college hope future construction course students will work on the new Universal Studios in the UK.
The Bedford College Group are part of government plans to train 40,000 future builders, bricklayers, electricians, carpenters and plumbers.
They're part of 10 Technical Excellence Colleges gaining £100 pounds of investment.
The specialist colleges will be in every region of England to deliver the workforce needed to turbocharge the building of new homes, schools and hospitals, helping to realise every Brit’s dream of owning their own home.
The government say the move will allow the industry to draw on homegrown, British talent in the years to come rather than relying on overseas workers.
Office for National Statistics showing around 35,000 job vacancies need to be plugged in the sector and it's hoped the students skills will help deliver on Labours promise of building 1.5 million new homes.
Bedford College Group run Tresham College, Central Bedfordshire College in Dunstable, Shuttleworth College, a land based college with a zoo and a training farm and the National College for Motorsport, Silverstone.
As well as that they have two sixth forms, one in Bedford, one in Corby, and in September are bringing online the National College for Logistics in Leighton Buzzard.
They train, in excess of 25,000 people a year.
Robin Webber-Jones is the Executive Director for Curriculum at the Bedford College Group:
"if you think about all of the developments happening in the region from Luton airport expansion to new railways being built to that tiny little project called Universal, which is really exciting, construction is kind of pivotal to all of it.
So I think that work that we can do as a hub to broker those conversations and to develop the curriculum with with lots of employers will be critical and and hopefully along the way there'll be a few thousand more people that we inspire at at all levels, from entry points right the way through to engage in kind of flourishing careers in in all sorts of different types of construction."
He says the courses at the Bedford College Group will be forward looking:
"We'll be working with other colleges both in the area, but also nationally, to determine what curriculum is needed for construction in the future. So that's everything from green technologies, the way AI might support design to actually people developing construction craft."