Ashfield School's vision of an innovative and imaginative provision of high quality specialist and general education for all students is underpinned by the construction of the Ashfield Skills Centre (ASC). Overview • • The Ashfield Skills Centre is a £6.1 million project which will deliver 5 discrete, but philosophically linked, learning environments. The centre includes: 8 Vocational Units: All these units will be equipped to industry standard specification and will mimic an industrial or commercial context. Course content and delivery will be provided by industrial and commercial training providers in Textiles, Business, Child Care, Health & Beauty and ICT. 3 Industrial Units: Stand alone industrial units which will deliver "hard" vocational courses to include construction, plumbing, automotive, electrical, catering and hospitality courses delivered by industrial training providers RAC, Carillion and Charnwood. POST 16 Centre • • • • • • • • • . The POST 16 area consists of: 16 general teaching areas 1 science area 1 science and electronics area 3 ICT areas 1 Product Design: Resistant Materials and Graphics area 1 Product Design: Textiles area 1 Food Technology area 1 social area 3 administration and support areas The POST 16 Centre allows students to experience the highest quality learning environment. It links naturally into The Ashfield Plaza. This enables students to experience ground breaking vocational education set in a genuine commercial and vocational context. This allows us to smash the false dichotomy between vocational and academic route ways to success. This area is protected for one hundred per cent use by POST 16 students. Vocational education must be seen to have parity of esteem in terms of its capacity to deliver achievement for all students. The increased relevance and motivation engendered by these new courses will raise standards across the board but most especially in context of increased employability.