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Raising educational standards is one of the government's top priorities,
and this is reflected in the huge increases in capital investment in
schools taking place. To ensure this is put to best use, central
government needed to test out new ideas and construct a vision of how
schools should be designed in the future. There are three projects
focussing on this area: Schools of the Future; Classrooms of the Future
and Teaching Environments for the Future.Schools of the FutureThis 'Schools for the Future' webpage (see link below) provides links to some exciting design initiatives which share the common aim of ensuring that school buildings provide excellent educational facilities for staff, pupils and the wider community. This information will be useful to those involved in school building projects, whether new schools or adaptations. Classrooms of the FutureThe Classrooms of the Future initiative embraced a number of pilot projects, spread among 12 LEAs, which are testing out innovative ideas for educational design. Most of these are now finished but they offered an exciting vision of how school design will change. Teaching Environments for the FutureIn March 2003 central government invited expressions of interest from local education authorities to join in the sequel to Classrooms of the Future. This time the emphasis was on developing innovative pathfinder projects in schools that will support the school workforce reform agenda – in particular the principles outlined in the National Agreement on Raising Standards and Tackling workload. The pathfinders centred on designing new spaces, or on remodelling existing accommodation. See link below
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