What are the benefits of collaboration?

Partnerships can bring together like-minded people with the same agenda to ensure better and more flexible provision. They encourage innovation and a sharing of resources as well as teaching approaches and strategies. Individual members of the partnership have their own strengths, expertise and resources: what is perceived as a barrier for one partner may be resolved by another.

Working together for a common purpose often generates creative solutions to overcoming barriers individual partners have experienced in their own organisations. Increased collaboration could really help schools to meet the student entitlement at 14 to 16, encourage coherent curriculum planning, provide wider choice and smooth the transition between pre- and post-16 learning.