BACK OF THE CLASS

摘要

As school buildings are increasingly designed as community facilities for the use and enjoyment of all, is it possible that they are becoming less suitable as places of learning? Transforming education is the new mantra. Such is the transformation of 'education' that not one of the delegates at the recent AJ 'Building Schools for the Future' conference mentioned the word — at least, not in its own terms. Instead, there was a general consensus that schools should be seen as assets for the whole community and that viewing them purely and simply as educational facilities was old hat.