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• Promoting Excellence and Skills for Scotland both highlight the importance of
ensuring flexibility of provision that is responsive to the needs of individuals,
society and the economy. NCG can contribute to this in part through flexibility of its
physical estate, and in part through a greater breadth of curriculum and times at
which the curriculum is delivered.
• Skills for Life, Promoting Excellence, The Future Thinking Taskforce on
Universities and the SFC Corporate Plan stress the role that colleges must play
within an increasingly joined-up provider landscape that offers clear progression
routes. NCG can contribute to this objective if it leads to a rationalising and
streamlining of the curriculum offer of the three colleges, facilitates the
establishments of articulations with universities, and if it maintains and strengthens
it relationships with schools.
• Promoting Excellence, Skills for Scotland and the SFC Corporate Plan highlight
colleges' increasingly important role in improving the flow of knowledge between
colleges and business, and encouraging employer demand for skills. NCG can
contribute to this agenda, if it facilitates knowledge sharing between colleges on
employer needs, simplifies the pathways through which employers engage with
colleges, and enables the colleges to offer more tailored, flexible and specialised
provision.
• The new campus will also enable the colleges to maintain and enhance their core
roles in delivering employability and vocational skills, highlighted as a priority
within Promoting Excellence.
7.16 More broadly, the new campus will contribute to all five strategic objectives of the
Government Economic Strategy, inspiring individuals to achieve vocational and academic
excellence, and unlocking the potential of Glasgow's people to make a full contribution to the
economy.
Summary
7.17 New Campus Glasgow has the potential to act as the catalyst for the generation of a
wide number of benefits, and in so doing to contribute towards to national learning, skills,
regeneration and economic development policy.
7.18 However, although the new campus can act as a catalyst for these benefits to be
realised, nearly all potential impacts of the new campus are equally, if not more, dependent
on a range of factors that are not directly related to the new estate itself. These include:
• The willingness of the colleges to collaborate around a shared vision, adopting
shared values, a common culture, and embracing the notion of Curriculum
Institutes that are jointly planned and delivered;
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Appendix 13: Economic Impact Report