3. Property Strategy
A new city centre campus
Leading-edge Technical and Vocational Facilities for post-16 Education
The Manchester College five-year strategy - College 2020 - is being embedded across the city region, to respond to changes such as regional devolution, appointment of Metro Mayors, the Post-16 Skills Plan, the Industrial Strategy and the Northern Powerhouse. This includes the start of our consultation on what is likely to be one of the largest estate reshapes in the sector. The project will provide high quality teaching and learning environments for students, staff and employers including a new city centre campus. The Manchester College is fully committed to the direction of travel set out in the Post 16- Skills Plan and has already embarked upon changes based on partnership with industry. Greater Manchester is committed to a co-branded, cocreated and co-delivered vocational training system with industry helping to design and deliver appropriate training for business needs. However, the skills strategy cannot be achieved without investment in a new estate. The College has developed a new Estates Strategy, which proposes a radical change in the number and location of its facilities. Central to the Strategy is the College’s approach of working with industry to co-design and codeliver more relevant vocational and technical skills provision. The combination of a modern estate of campuses, built for priority sectors and accessible learning centres, and a co-created and co-delivered training system will result in a marked increase in terms of the quality of people trained and the quality of the outcomes. In simple terms, better-trained people with relevant qualifications and skills, responding to the Greater Manchester Work and Skills Strategy. The Strategy, agreed by the Governing Body in September 2016, consolidates the Manchester College’s estate to five sites – including a new campus in the city centre and significant remodelling and investment at the Openshaw Campus. These will significantly improve the quality and attractiveness of the learning offer for residents and employers. The Estates Strategy also has the potential to reduce operational costs, while increasing the number oflearners supported. As a result of the strategy, the College will exit and vacate 20 existing properties, of various sizes, occupied under various tenures. This includes some significant freehold properties. Work to date identifies a new city centre campus providing around 25,000-30,000 sq metres of space. As well as classroom and office accommodation, facilities would include a bistro, a hair and beauty salon, cafes, library and learning centres, art and design studios, digital and computing suites, dance studios and a theatre.
CITY CENTRE Campus focusing on Creative & Digital and Business, Financial & Professional Services, where the majority of Manchester’s employment growth is expected and new markets and technological change require a higher skilled workforce. The City Centre site will accommodate the College’s A level centre, providing academic routes into Higher Education CITY LABS (CITY CENTRE 2) Access to Medical Sciences Centre of Excellence at City Labs, located in the city centre within the Corridor Manchester health cluster. OPENSHAW Campus focusing on Construction and Logistics, plus Sport, Health and Wellbeing, including health, social care and childcare. Serving east Manchester, the campus would also offer an engagement curriculum for harder to reach learners or those who have not yet determined a route into specialisation. A broader curriculum offer would provide pre-employment, information, advice and guidance and welfare. WYTHENSHAWE Serving south Manchester, the Wythenshawe campus would offer an engagement curriculum for harder to reach learners or those who have not yet determined a route into specialisation. A broader curriculum offer would provide preemployment, information, advice and guidance
and welfare. HARPURHEY
Serving north Manchester, Harpurhey would offer an engagement curriculum for harder to reach learners or those who have not yet determined a route into specialisation. A broader curriculum offer would provide
pre-employment, information, advice and guidance and welfare
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