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• Specialism and diversity - looking to strengthen specialisms to provide students,
businesses and other stakeholders with a broad and comprehensive range of
opportunities for learning, research and knowledge exchange.
• Collaboration - delivering academic or institutional collaboration to secure
coherent, efficient and effective provision, and to create economies of scale.
• World-class research.
• Effective colleges and universities - including helping colleges to deliver efficiency
gains.
Local Policy
A Step Change for Glasgow: Action Plan for 2013
2.24 This is Glasgow's Five-Year Action Plan, prepared by the Glasgow Economic Forum,
and launched at the State of the City Conference in November 2008. The Action Plan
identifies eight core themes.
2.25 Theme 2 is 'Education at the Heart of the City'. This states that 'Glasgow, with its
highly regarded further and higher education institutions, is well-placed to build strong
functional links between education providers and the wider economy'. Within this theme, key
activity includes 'improvement of education estates to achieve a 21st century learning
environment' - including rebuilding of FE colleges.
2.26 In addition, Supporting Theme 2 is about 'Shared Prosperity'. This includes actions to:
• Provide a best start for all our young people, including improving school leaver
destinations through curriculum development, improved partnership working with
learning providers and continued development of vocational training; and
• Encouraging a 'culture of lifelong learning'.
2.27 Some key outputs anticipated from the Action Plan include:
• Increase training opportunities for young people to participate in the MCMC
traineeship programme
• Recruit 1000 Skillseekers and Modern Apprentices
• Align all vocational training to key growth sectors
• New FE qualifications to support key growth sectors
• Enabling benefit claimants to progress into work
• Attract fresh talent and income into the city
Roughroad to the superhighway: the structure of Further Education in Glasgow
2.28 'Roughroad' was produced in 2003 by a sub-group of the then Glasgow Colleges
Group. It remains the only shared vision among the colleges for a coherent and effective
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