Though hailed as a unique collaboration between a school and a college to give pupils aged just 14 skills for valuable careers in sought-after professions, Career College North East (CCNE) is far more than that to those who have helped shape it.
The ground-breaking initiative is also the opportunity of a generation to reconfigure links between the future workforce and employers and increase the range of choice for both.
This is being done through a high-quality vocational and academic pathway between South Tyneside College and my school, St Wilfrid’s RC College in South Shields – rated outstanding by Ofsted.
It is, in the words of Alison Maynard, South Tyneside College’s principal, a “grand vision” of skills development.
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