An all-new STEM Center for innovation was scheduled to be built at the College at Braintree, offering bigger opportunities in research. Furthermore, it has been cited to punctuate the research industry in UK after the SELEP (the South East Local Enterprise Partnership) has indicated a schedule visit on Wednesday, October 12, 2016.

Besides mainly serving as a mere research center, the targeted STEM Innovation building has been cited by many academic experts to be a potential receptacle for science facilities. With the vast space inside, it would be very safe to conclude that it could fully function as a training laboratory for Science and Technology students at the College at Braintree.

In fact, the building's authoring designer has saw to it that the building's environment would serve to train young innovators. The building is situated right at the college's Church Lane campus after it has been given clearance by the Braintree council.

One of the conditions set in by the council before giving the STEM center clearance is that it would embody one of the purposes of the research program which is to serve as an alternative classroom for students.

"We are really excited about the prospect of our new training facility opening in the Spring. We will have a very large open plan manufacturing facility that will replicate industrial facilities, in addition to more specific high-tech workshops and classrooms", Alison Andreas, Principal and Chief Executive at Colchester Institute, stated in Clacton Gazette.

Now, a scheduled visit by the SELEP (the South East Local Enterprise Partnership) on October 12, 2016 sparked major speculations within Braintree council. And, there is definitely a reason for the college to go berserk over this matter for there had been single appointment made by SELEP that did not produce big-time results in the research industry.

SELEP, with the main objectives of creating a drive in for economic development across regions in UK, has arranged to stop by the site from which the STEM center is to be built. The action is only a part of its touring itineraries, Braintree and Witham Times reported.

Whatever the case, Braintree is nevertheless delighted by the indirect nod made by SELEP so as future partnerships and opened opportunities for research will surely find its way somewhere along the long list of priorities.