Collaborative projects that strengthen curriculum, drive digital innovation, and build lasting education-industry connections — across Greater Manchester, Lancashire, and beyond.
Sagacity Education Services works alongside further education colleges, training providers, and employer partners to design and lead collaborative projects that create genuine impact — for learners, for institutions, and for the communities they serve.
Funded by programmes including the Local Skills Improvement Fund (LSIF), the Further Education Innovation Fund (FEIF), and the Greater Manchester Colleges Group (GMColleges), our work spans curriculum development, digital transformation, education-industry partnerships, and learner support.
"By working together across Greater Manchester and Lancashire, we can better understand and address the challenges faced by the young people and communities our colleges serve."
— Emma Goodlet, GM Colleges Project Lead
Our work cuts across the priorities that matter most to colleges today — from curriculum design to digital innovation to the wellbeing of learners with additional needs.
Leading multi-institution projects that bring colleges together around shared priorities — from skills gaps to learner support to curriculum alignment.
Working with curriculum teams to design programmes that are responsive to employer needs, aligned to local skills priorities, and engaging for learners.
Supporting colleges to embed technology meaningfully — from AI tools and immersive learning environments to digital employer partnerships and skills programmes.
Building genuine, sustained relationships between colleges and employers — creating pathways for learners and ensuring curricula reflect real-world practice.
Drawing on senior leadership experience across student services, safeguarding and learner experience to support colleges in improving outcomes for all learners.
Leading GM-wide collaboration to improve outcomes for service children and military-connected learners in FE — drawing on personal experience as a Royal Navy veteran.
Education Services has played a leading role in some of the most significant collaborative programmes across Greater Manchester and Lancashire.
As GM Colleges Project Lead, Emma leads two coordinated initiatives — the GMC Student Support Project (GMCSS) and Achieve Your Potential (AYP) — aimed at improving outcomes for service children and military-connected young people across all nine Greater Manchester colleges and partnering Lancashire providers. The programme establishes learner advisory groups, delivers staff awareness training, and implements targeted interventions to improve retention, attainment and progression. The project underpins the historic signing of the Armed Forces Covenant by all nine GM colleges — a first of its kind nationally.
Collaborative work as part of the Greater Manchester Colleges Group's £8.4m LSIF programme (November 2023 – March 2025), spanning five priority areas: Educational Workforce, Construction, Health, Digital, and Engineering & Manufacturing. The programme brought colleges, employers and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority together around a shared regional skills agenda — investing in immersive learning environments, new qualifications, AI-enhanced teaching, and employer-responsive curriculum across the GM FE sector.
Involvement in the Greater Manchester Further Education Innovation Programme (GMFEIP), funded by Innovate UK. The programme established Innovation Hubs in every GM borough, placed Innovators in Residence across four key sectors (Sustainable Advanced Materials, Digital & Creative, Net Zero, and Health Innovation), and trained approximately 7,000 apprentices to become Innovation Literacy Ambassadors — embedding an innovation culture across GM businesses and college communities.
Emma began her career in the Royal Navy, serving for nine years as a Physical Training Instructor. The values that defined that service — discipline, resilience, commitment to the people around you — have shaped everything she has done since.
On leaving the Navy, Emma entered the education sector and built a career that has taken her to senior leadership roles across colleges in Greater Manchester and Lancashire. She has served as Assistant Principal across curriculum, student services, learner experience, and safeguarding — giving her an unusually broad perspective on what it takes for a college to function well and for its learners to thrive.
Emma now brings that experience to bear in a different way — as a collaborative project leader working across the GM FE sector. With an exceptional network built over years of senior college leadership, she is well placed to bring the right people together, build the trust that makes collaboration work, and deliver projects that create lasting change.
Her leadership of the Armed Forces Learner Support Programme across GM and Lancashire carries particular personal resonance — connecting her military background directly to a mission she cares about deeply.
Physical Training Instructor; the foundation of a career defined by discipline, wellbeing and service to others.
Assistant Principal across curriculum, student services, learner experience and safeguarding in GM and Lancashire colleges.
Leading the region's collaborative programme to support armed forces young people in further education.
Relationships across all nine Greater Manchester colleges and beyond — the foundation of effective cross-institutional collaboration.
Whether you have a funded project in mind, are looking for a collaborative partner, or want to explore what's possible — Emma would love to hear from you.
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