Doncaster College is teaming up with a College in Morocco, Ecole Supérieure des Industries du Textile et de l’Habillement (ESITH), in an exciting collaboration called the Skills for Employability Project.
The British Council, who specialises in international educational and cultural opportunities, funds the project.
The aim of the project is to promote skills development and increase the employability of young people in participating countries by encouraging close links between education and industry.
Karen Trem, from the Business School at the University Centre Doncaster, who is managing the project explained: "This is an exciting project, funded by the British Council, which enables us to work in partnership with ESITH in Casablanca.
"ESITH is a specialist College serving the textile industry, and the partnership should produce mutual benefits. There will be an opportunity for a number of our staff and students to go to Casablanca to learn about textile manufacture in their well-equipped College.
"There will also be a return visit by ESITH students to visit and learn from our fashion experts.
"There will also be joint work done on the development or course content relating to warehousing and to enterprise, both equally relevant in Doncaster and in Casablanca."
Work has already started on the development of advanced English Language skills for the ESITH staff, who have been working with Tim Walker from the Business School with the help of a 3D character named Don Smith, produced by FusedWorks, and utilized through a combination of face to face delivery and distance learning.
FusedWorks will also create a 3D warehouse to encompass English terminology to help support the delivery of English as a Foreign Language within ESITH's new logistics curriculum.
Updated: 01/04/2011
