The Minster for Skills, Matthew Hancock MP, has paid a visit to the East Riding to discuss key issues in further education.
Mr Hancock visited East Riding College in Beverley on Friday January 11.
Along with Beverley and Holderness MP Graham Stuart and officials from the Department for Business Innovation, the MP was given a tour of the Gallows Lane campus before meeting with senior managers from the College.
He saw students hard at work in the College’s Learning Resource Centre and in motor vehicle maintenance, construction, hairdressing and beauty therapy, and hospitality and catering.
Mr Hancock then discussed key issues in the further education sector with Principal Derek Branton and other senior managers.
Mr Branton said: “Today’s visit provided an excellent opportunity to raise with a government minister some of the issues facing further education colleges brought about by recent funding and policy changes.”