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

14-19 PATHFINDERS: THE SECOND YEAR51. Having established the importance attached to collaboration in a very general senseboth in policy and practice we will now present a fairly simple model of the ways in whichwe see collaboration working in the pathfinders. This is necessary because while mostparticipants agree that collaboration is a good thing it is important to understand the leversand drivers which promote collaboration, the contextual factors which may either enable orconstrain it, the different forms which it might take and the sorts of outcomes which mayresult. The latter element is particularly important since collaboration is a means to a varietyof ends, of which the most fundamentally important are student participation, retention,achievement and progression.52. The model will also help us to structure the evaluation findings on collaboration.However, it should be noted that the model requires further development and is not fullyelaborated in this report.17