WEST HERTS COLLEGE in Watford has been awarded £3million from the Learning and Skills Council (LSC)..
The money from the LSC, responsible for funding post-16 education, will go towards transforming the cash-strapped college's Cassio campus into a "centre for excellence" for A-level students.
College bosses have now drawn up a detailed wish list of several major projects for the Cassio Campus on Langley Road, including a dedicated sixth-form centre which they hope will attract students from throughout the south east.
A management team has been picked from existing staff to oversee the work until its completion.
Newly-appointed Cassio campus director Mark Silverman said: "There is nothing more important to the future of the college than absolute best practice sixth-form provision.
"We have researched some exceptional facilities in the UK and our plans draw from the very best.
"In Watford Cassio students are going to find a high quality centre of excellence of which we can all be proud, as students and lecturers."
News of the LSC funding is a big boost for the college which is currently locked in an increasingly bitter dispute with lecturers' union Natfhe over its plans to make more than 100 staff at the college redundant.
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