KENNETH BAKER:'WE'RE IN A GOLDEN AGE OF ARCHITECTURE, BUT WE'RE MISSING GOOD TECHNICAL COLLEGES'

摘要

A revolutionary new route for young people to enter architecture is emerging, if its principal advocate is to be believed. Many people will remember Kenneth Baker as Margaret Thatcher's formidable education secretary between 1986 and 1989, during which time he pushed through reforms including the National Curriculum, school league tables and the first academies (then called city technology colleges). Thirty years later Baker - now a Tory peer - has picked up the baton again, and is determined to make a success of his latest initiative to boost technical and vocational education. Baker is co-founder and chairman of the Baker Dearing Educational Trust, which was set up to develop and promote university technical colleges (UTCs). UTCs are sponsored by universities and employers and teach a combined technical and academic curriculum to 14 to 18-year-olds.