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

14-19 PATHFINDERS: THE SECOND YEARSECTION FOUR: CURRICULAR PROVISIONKey points‣ The broadening of curricular provision has been key feature of all the 14-19Pathfinders‣ Different pathfinders have given somewhat different emphases to different aspects ofcurriculum provision‣ Most pathfinders have focused strongly upon the promotion of work-related learning,and innovative vocational learning‣ There has been emphasis in most pathfinders on the 14-16 curriculum‣ A minority of pathfinders have emphasised curriculum broadening at 16-19‣ Only some pathfinders have focused upon developments in work-based learning,enterprise learning and variations in the pace of learning but where these have beenthe foci significant progress has been made‣ There has been increased attention to the development and promotion of 14-19progression routes and on the development of the 14-19 phase as a whole‣ Pathfinders vary in the emphasis they give to promoting post-19 progression andwhere this is a focus attention is almost always directed to progression into highereducation107. We turn now to the first of two major sections on the outcomes or products of thecollaborative approaches described in the previous section. Here we focus upon a range ofcurricular approaches which have been developed under the auspices of pathfinder. Wedescribe: approaches to providing broader curricular offerings and work-related learning;innovative approaches to vocational learning; the development of work-based learning; thepromotion of enterprise learning; variations in the pace of learning; the development of 14-19progression routes and the promotion of post-19 progression.108. We showed in the previous section that there were some significant variationsbetween pathfinders in the emphasis which they gave to these different approaches.However, this should not disguise the powerful curricular effects of the pathfinder initiative.To a large extent it has been a curriculum initiative aiming to raise participation, retention,37