Even before you reach the front door ofBrooklands college, it's clear that thebuilding is on the way to falling down.The red bricks of the handsome Victorian frontage have been prised apart by ivy, and small piles of rubble have collected behind a safety barrier, from which hangs a red sign directing visitors away from the entrance. Following it brings you to the back of the college, where it is revealed that the front is a facade for a dilapidated sixties building with leaking windows. Next to that stands a 20ft-high grey wall of prefabricated cabins, where the college's lecturers are briefing the bricklayers, carpenters and hairdressers of tomorrow. Their principal is Colin Staff, who explains in a voice pitched below the hearing of passing students that the temporary buildings are costing him up to ￡80,000 a month. "The staff are actually quite pleased with them - they're clean and they don't leak like the old building. But they'll get scruffy quickly. It's hardly a long-term solution."
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