A recently merged college is consulting on its future and warned its staff of a risk of redundancy as it struggles for financial viability.
NCATI, which has campuses in Birmingham and Doncaster and was formerly known as the National College for High Speed Rail, is proposing to cease direct delivery and instead work through partner training organisations and employers.
It’s interim principal and CEO, Lowell Williams, told FE Week that the college was “a long way” from recruiting apprentices at the volume needed to operate as a traditional college.
DfE statistics show the college, under its previous guise as the National College for High Speed Rail, started 150 apprentices in 2018/19. In 2020/21 however that was down to 100 and in 2021/22 was just 40.
