artnering became the vogue word at the PfS annual conference in London last week when “One conversation” was the strap line used to encompass partnerships for schools new all embracing responsibility for capital expenditure in schools and 6th Form Colleges.
The largely male audience was no doubt intrigued by chairperson Emily Maitliss’s reference to the afternoon [...]

According to CABE these are the criteria for succesful school design which will have to be met before BSF projects will get the green light.
http://www.cabe.org.uk/files/successful-school-design.pdf
And here is a web based tool to help you in the process.
http://www.cabe.org.uk/design-review/schools/criteria
Not sure CABE have addressed the potenntial of the virtual environment though?

Click on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytc0U2WAz4s

What you’ll hopefully have found is Michael Rosen, possibly the UK’s most celebrated children’s poet, performing ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’, at your finger tips. A brilliant opportunity to engage with a crafted performance of a poem, directed at the viewer, with sub-titles to read along with. A valuable resource, right there in your living room, office, or wherever else you access the internet. But not in your classroom.

What Comes Next?
The Channel 4 Education Summer conference gathered together an eclectic mix of digital media and education professionals to consider how the UK Education system “struggles to respond to ever increasing demands, new policy initiatives, new demands from parents and students, and all the innovations in pedagogy, technology and neuroscience.”
This was a timely event [...]