New schools, poor design


	New schools, poor design

montypaul

7-22-2008 2:44 AM

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uk, education, school design, change, technology, teaching and learning

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b7f02d5a-0968-408a-aa99-84c695168599/37CB04A0-9E46-4485-959A-48B47A37B79A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/jul/22/schools?gusrc=rss&feed=education" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/jul/22/schools?gusrc=rss&feed=education" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/jul/22/schools?gusrc=rss&feed=education"><P>The government deserves congratulations for funding a system of design reviews through the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, but it is at least as important to address the procurement process. Design reviews may themselves have to be improved to incorporate a fuller understanding of changes in teaching and learning. It is, however, baffling to focus on outcomes when the process that produces such designs does not have similar scrutiny. The Building Schools for the Future procurement process demands answers from clients when their knowledge is least; duplicates work, but allows little time for meaningful involvement of teachers and learners; and costs millions for private and public sectors alike to take part. Money that should be spent on our schools. That's what the BCSE told the select committee last week. Cabe and others should do the same.<BR /><STRONG>Ty Goddard</STRONG><BR />British Council for School Environments</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/37CB04A0-9E46-4485-959A-48B47A37B79A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>