The Primary Capital Programme (PCP) will afford primary schools the same opportunity as BSF: to design totally re-imagined learning spaces. But is there the vision to effect this kind of transformation or will we just end up with the same classrooms, just shinier and smarter?

Flux has been added to the listings on Alltop, a directory of RSS feeds showing ‘all the top’ news stories from around the web. You might be interested to know about their education page. I wonder, does there exist any other page that pulls together in one place so many education-related RSS feeds?
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The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust future visions southern tour started in London today and I am looking forward to visiting 7 schools in 3 days.
Today we spent the morning at Mossbourne Community Academy where we were welcomed by schools commisioner Sir Bruce Liddington and the afternoon at the Westminster Academy. Two very different visions [...]

Deeply immersive 3D experiences – not on screens but in special rooms called CAVES –have demonstrated very effective in teaching in science and mathematics for deaf students. The Smile project developing an immersive virtual learning environment in which deaf and hearing children (age 5-10) interact with fantasy 3D avatars and objects to learn maths and [...]