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Specialist college set up to train engineers for controversial HS2 railway
recruited just 96 students

     * Specialist college to train engineers for the controversial HS2
       railway line
     * The National College of High Speed Rail (NCHSR) opened in September
       last year
     * With capacity for 3,600 students bosses hoped that, by 2021, 1,000
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   A specialist college set up to train engineers for the controversial
   HS2 railway line managed to recruit just 96 students last year, it
   emerged yesterday.

   The National College of High Speed Rail (NCHSR), which has two
   state-of-the-art campuses in Birmingham and Doncaster, opened in
   September last year with capacity for 3,600 students.
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   foundation degree - to create a new generation of engineers equipped to
   work on the new line.
   The National College of High Speed Rail (NCHSR), which has two
   state-of-the-art campuses in Birmingham and Doncaster, opened in
   September last year with capacity for 3,600 students
   The National College of High Speed Rail (NCHSR), which has two
   state-of-the-art campuses in Birmingham and Doncaster, opened in
   September last year with capacity for 3,600 students

   The National College of High Speed Rail (NCHSR), which has two
   state-of-the-art campuses in Birmingham and Doncaster, opened in
   September last year with capacity for 3,600 students
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   billion of funding for apprenticeships unspent.’

   The news is the latest blow to HS2, which has already cost taxpayers
   £4.1 billion before any construction has begun.

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   Crewe due to be completed by 2033.

   Joe Rukin, from the Stop HS2 campaign group, told the Financial Times
   the college was ‘pointless’.

   ‘With Birmingham university already having an award-winning railway
   education centre, building a brand new college just for HS2 always
   seemed like an idiotic and profligate concept that was only ever
   conceived as a PR stunt,’ he said.

   ‘This pointless college has now turned into exactly the same sort of
   absolute disaster HS2 will be.’


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