Collaborative Approaches to 14-19 Provision - Communities and ...

14-19 PATHFINDERS: THE SECOND YEARbusiness links coordinators. Much has also been done to enhance and broaden thecurriculum, especially through the growth of school/college links supported by the IFprogramme. Strengthening of advice and guidance and mentoring are being developed asstrategies for raising aspirations among targeted groups of learners.416. The pathfinder, through strong links to the LEA ICT development strategy, is lookingto ways in which e-learning and video-conferencing can be used to enhance and extend thecurriculum.417. One interesting thrust, which matches developments in other rural pathfinders, is thesuggestion that local skills centres should be established to provide vocational learning andthus limit the need for lengthy journeys to access college resources. An alternative approachmay be to link with local training providers in order to access additional vocational learningcapacity. We found that currently training providers were not playing a major role in thepathfinder and this reflected the relative neglect of work-based learning in the pathfinder.125