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Collaboration and Sharing Fund – Further Information
1. Introduction
Coordination, cooperation and closer working arrangements between learning providers can frequently benefit learners and improve learner outcomes. Finding new and innovative ways of delivering education and training will be essential if the further education system is to play its part in meeting the skills ambition set out in the Leitch Review (Prosperity for all in the global economy) and the broader reform agenda characterised by the FE White Paper (Raising Skills, Improving Life Chances).
Through collaboration, colleges can achieve a wide range of benefits such as:
• access to leading educational and management practices
• better use of scarce and specialist resources
• more effective use of assets including infrastructure and systems
For a number of years, established policy has been to support collaborations that involve the sharing of college support activities such as learner management processes, ICT, finance and human resources. The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills and the Learning and Skills Council now propose to directly support those colleges seeking to develop these forms of collaboration.