Colleges in Sussex have been awarded more than £100 million.

Universities and skills secretary John Denham announced five further education colleges would receive grants towards the costs of constructing, replacing and refurbishing campus buildings.

Hastings College of Arts and Technology, in St Leonards, will receive £72.3 million to relocate the college to two sites at Station Plaza and Ore Valley in central Hastings.

The cash, to be given to the college by Government via the Learning and Skills Council, is equivalent to nearly 80 per cent of the £92 million cost.

Brighton, Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College in Dyke Road, Hove, will receive £24.3 million to fund 86 per cent of the costs of a three-phased campus renewal, including new-build or modernisation across more than 11,000sqm, including the main building and sports hall.

Central Sussex College, which has six campuses across the county, including in Crawley, is in line to receive almost £6 million. Of this, £3.2 million will be towards demolishing substandard classrooms, including temporary huts, and replacing them with a purposebuilt sixth-form centre and a refurbished sports hall.

A further £2.5 million will help fund the renewal of the college's Haywards Heath campus.

Plumpton College in Ditchling Road has been awarded £113,000 - ten per cent of the cost of demolishing temporary accommodation and replacing it with a new science block with four new classrooms and a further five elsewhere.

The College of Richard Collyer in Horsham, will receive just under £55,000 - ten per cent of the cost of a new two-storey annexe to the existing sports hall. It will have changing rooms and a fitness suite on the ground floor and classrooms and offices on the first floor.

Mr Denham said the largest ever further education building programme would see £2.3 billion invested in more than 150 colleges in England over the next three years to develop low carbon colleges, and deliver onsite apprenticeships and work-based learning.