AoC Chief Executive David Hughes has written to the candidates for the Conservative Party leadership contest outlining the importance of colleges as engines of growth in the economy and making the case for the future Prime Minister to centre their skills agenda on colleges, which already support levelling up across England’s towns and cities.
The letter calls for colleges to be exempted from VAT to match schools and academies. This tax cut could help ease the staffing crisis in colleges which is a threat to the Government’s ambitious skills agenda.
