Final funding approval needed for engineering and construction facility

Fri, 04 Jul 2014

This month, the Minister for Education and Children will seek approval on the final £1.4 million of a £4.9 million engineering and construction training scheme.

It's to boost the industries by creating modern training facilities for construction crafts at the Isle of Man College.

If Tynwald grants the final phase, the development will be a 'real time' project for apprentices through practical involvement with the works.

Richard Collister is the director of estates, he says there's a real need for it: