Education + Training: Volume 34 Issue 6

The new vision: City Challenge 2

The success of Barnsley's bid for funding, under the Government's second round of the City Challenge projects, represents the latest tangible outcome of the synergy of partnership…

Managing Corporate Community Involvement

Will Wesson

We should never underestimate the role that industry can play in education and the communities in which it operates. I am a firm believer in the importance of the contributions…

Partnership in schools

It is Costain's policy to promote partnerships with schools, and links have been established with a number throughout the UK. The main elements of the company's policy are:

Partnership and community: The Grimethorpe Activity Zone

The Barnsley Partnership's commitment to involvement in the local community attempts to raise awareness of the role of the Partnership, and also to discover the key issues of…

Partnership: Review and reflection

The Barnsley Partnership started from the premiss that urban regeneration is more than mere property development and that it demands true partnership between the private sector…

Establishing Partnership: From vision to reality

The proposal for partnership with Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and its community was made by Costain Group plc, with the goal of creating approximately 10,000 additional…

The Barnsley Partnership

Will Wesson, Jeffrey Gold

Reviews the Barnsley Partnership, a joint venture involvingBarnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and a subsidiary of Costain, andtheir ten‐year agreement to develop land local to…

Reviving quality training

While the central role of the Barnsley Partnership is to generate jobs and link them to the right people in Barnsley, the Partnership is seeking quality rather than quantity in…