How will the curriculum change following co-location?
This will be shaped, in large part, by the context we are operating in. The two colleges have placed great emphasis and importance on their relationships with Shrewsbury Partnership for Education and Training (SPET) partner schools and see themselves as their sixth forms. We have made it clear that what we provide at 16+ needs to be shaped by what the schools and their pupils want to study. The 14-19 curriculum framework will offer pupils in key stage four a range of vocational diplomas with the first five becoming available from 2008 and these students will be coming on to us in 2010. This will mean a greater number of pupils who have experienced a vocational element in their school education and, it is reasonable to assume, might wish to continue this post 16. Some of these will take a purely vocational route, but others will want to combine academic and vocational studies and here the colleges will need to work together. In our in-principle application to the LSC, we predicted 250 s
