| • | The London Boroughs of:
| • | Richmond upon Thames |
| • | Merton |
| • | Sutton |
| • | Croydon |
| • | Bromley. |
The partnership aims to:
| • | Raise the profile of Aimhigher in the areas not touched by Excellence Challenge, to benefit target groups of learners. |
| • | Extend and exchange Aimhigher good practice. |
| • | Raise the profile of vocational progression pathways and make them integral to Aimhigher planning by 2006. |
| • | Develop targets with individual institutions that relate to progression rates to HE. |
The Croydon Aimhigher Partnership started in September 2003 and has recently expanded to include 5 more secondary schools. Croydon has 2 part-time co-ordinators. The other 5 boroughs formed Aimhigher clusters in September 2004 and co-ordination is by the London South team, with LEA support.
The London South area is unusually diverse in its social and economic characteristics.
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It is a largely prosperous sub region of a great world city, with low unemployment and over 25% of local workers in sophisticated, knowledge based, well paid, value-adding employments.
But there are pockets of entrenched deprivation, economic poverty and social exclusion. 1 in 10 people in the local work force has no qualifications; 20% have low levels of literacy; and nearly one third are inadequately qualified.
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