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• Creating more obvious access points to the city's learning quarter and the new
campus itself, drawing in potential learners
• Making a wider range of holistic support services available to learners;
• Establishing space within the campus for Regeneration Agencies - so as to
support the transition from NEET to education.
• Offering provision across a wider range of hours.
7.6 However, many of the potential impacts of the new campus in engaging vulnerable
learners will depend critically on the attitude and approach of the colleges to a range of
outreach activity, and the nature of relationship (and balance of provision with) the community
colleges and schools.
7.7 The new campus can support progression opportunities from colleges to HEIs by
simplifying the pathways through which universities engage with the colleges, allowing a
greater number of articulation programmes to be established with HEIs. Collaboration of the
colleges around a number of curriculum institutes should open up articulations to all students
studying a particular course, regardless of which college institution the student is actually
registered with; and the idea of a learning quarter will raise students' familiarity with the HE
surroundings, which is also expected to enhance progression.
7.8 The extent to which the new campus will improve progression routes from schools to
the colleges is less clear, as this is more dependent on personal relationships. However, by
simplifying the progression landscape within the city (without reducing the scale or range of
provision), the new campus should in theory make progression routes easier to establish.
Institutional impacts
7.9 The new campus has the potential to generate a number of institutional benefits:
• By sharing services, there is the potential for the colleges to make significant
savings in operational costs. The value of these savings could quite feasibly reach
£3m as a lower bound estimate, which equates to around 6% of the colleges
current total costs of delivery. If these savings are reinvested into improving the
breadth or quality of provision, the benefits to learners could be significant. Indeed,
for many stakeholders this is one of the key rationale for the co-location project.
• The new campus has the potential to demonstrate the highest standards of
sustainable building design, reducing the colleges environmental footprint, and in
turn enhancing all learners understanding of sustainability.
• The new campus can raise the profile of the colleges to international audiences,
and to enable the colleges to collaborate more effectively on international
marketing and recruitment.
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