Councillors backed plans for provision for 14- to 19-year-olds to bedelivered at a number of learning centres. They will be managed in afederation with a single management structure. Potentially this couldmean children take a physics lesson at one school and art atanother.
Steve Beynon, director of children's services at Isle of Wight Council'said: "I hope this will enable our high schools to workcollaboratively."
John Chowcat, general secretary of the Association of Professionals inEducation and Children's Trusts, welcomed the island's response to theGovernment's 14 to 19 framework but warned there were "major challengesahead".
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