Collaborations and Partnerships. Collaborations and/or partnerships involving joint policies, shared infrastructure, or capacity-building projects developed through the CIP or CBF must be described in the ICSP. Where applicable, provide information on the nature of your collaborations, partnership, or any other kinds of arrangements (e.g., time, work, funding, materials, expertise, information) that were developed through the collaboration/partnership.
Collaborations and Partnerships. Our approach to outreach has always been collaborative and based on partnership work with schools, colleges and community groups. We work with our partners to develop programmes that add value to the curriculum. As a member of the regional Higher Education Access Rewarding Transforming (HEART) partnership with universities and FE Colleges in West Yorkshire we are developing new arrangements for collaborative activity with schools, colleges and other stakeholders to deliver aspiration raising initiatives, improved attainment and important advice and information in targeted communities. As a partnership we have developed a common statement of purpose which is set out as Appendix B. We are also engaged in a range of academic partnership activity, which focus on delivering benefits for the local community but also engage those communities in the consideration of Leeds Metropolitan University as a place to study. One such project is reflected through our existing partnership work with Hamara - a Leeds based healthy living centre that is the largest ethnic minority organisation in the city. A joint five-year programme of research and enterprise between Hamara and the Institute for Health and Wellbeing within our University is currently being developed with the goal of finding new, more effective and innovative ways that may impact on the health and health inequalities in local communities. A Strategic Partnership Steering Group between Hamara and Leeds Metropolitan University is being established. The benefit of this project is that it strengthens our links with local communities, particularly those experiencing disadvantage, thereby consolidating pathways for potential learners from these communities to the University. Our partnership portfolio, developed over many years, has provided us with many opportunities to deliver high quality teaching in locations remote from our campus and have extended our widening participation routes. We believe in having provision that will serve the needs of our local community and provide access to higher education to students who might not otherwise consider this as an option. Following the refocus of our own undergraduate courses we invested in supporting our partner colleges to align their portfolio with ours. We continue to support opportunities for those students studying with our partners who wish to progress to our university and who have the ability to succeed.
