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Strong links between partners for new Diplomas

STOKE-ON-TRENT is playing a major role in pioneering the Diploma –thanks to the city’s strong partnership of schools, colleges, and universities, as well as employers and work based learning providers.

The Government was so impressed by the way in which everyone is working together to improve educational and employment opportunities for young people, that the city has been chosen to initially deliver the new qualification in four sectors - more than the number available in many other parts of the country.

In fact the aim is to provide a total of 17 Diploma qualifications in Stoke-on-Trent by 2013, providing a wide range of Higher Education and high skill routes into employment and promising careers that reward the individual and benefit the local economy. Over the next two years alone, the city will be submitting bids to widen the scope of the Diploma by introducing sectors as diverse as: creative arts and media; business and finance; manufacturing and product design; land and environment (dealing with green issues such as renewable resources); hospitality and catering.

Melanie Holdcroft, the Stoke-on-Trent City Council 14-19 Adviser, who is co-ordinating the implementation of the Diploma qualification across all the partners from schools to employers, said: “Stoke on-Trent has reason to be proud that the partnership involving education providers like the schools, Stoke on Trent College, the City’s Sixth Form College, Staffordshire and Keele Universities plus employers and work based learning providers has led directly to the city being chosen to deliver so many options for the Diploma implementation. “The Diploma is a work related route combining the very best of vocational and academic learning.

It is a new and exciting suite of qualifications that really opens up the opportunities of higher education and high skill employment for young people.”