What has inspired me about the Design Council’s approach is that it starts from the very real needs of the people who use the school and helps them to envision where they want to get to and what they need to do to get there. This emphasis on starting with the needs of the ‘end user’ - the student, staff member, parent or community member - seems to me to be critical, not just for how we design new and refurbished school buildings and environments, but for how we design our education system in the 21st century.Mike Gibbons, Lead Director, Innovation Unit, DfES/Chair, Learning Environments Campaign Expert Panel
Learning in the UK's schools is evolving fast, but the environments where that learning happens are essentially the same as they were 100 years ago. Change is long overdue, and this prospectus points the way to making it happen.