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rchitects working in the education sector won’t have been too delighted to see the return of Michael Gove to a role overseeing aspects of design quality, but at least this time it appears to be largely restricted to the challenges of building enough homes. The remit of the ‘Department
for Levelling Up, Homes and Communities,’ and its ambitious Secretary of State could impact student accommodation, at least from the housing angle. So with this supplement covering accommodation as well as education buildings themselves, we can only wonder as to what Gove intends for this part of the sector.
He made few friends within the industry as Education Secretary in the early 2010s, taking an aggressively ‘anti-architect’ stance, even banning curves in new education builds, in one of his early cost-cutting interventions. The back-to-basics design approach was about drawing a line in the sand after Blair’s Building Schools for the Future programme, lambasted by Gove as being used as a money-making vehicle by some architects.
His disheartening comments included not only that the Government “won’t be getting any award-winning architects to design schools,” but that architects were “creaming off money” from the programme, and that “no-one is here to make architects richer.” Let’s hope that in his drive towards creating better, ‘levelled- up’ communities in his current role, he has learned the value of schools’ design for knitting communities together – not forgetting student accommodation.
In this supplement, we celebrate architecture and design’s contribution to better education environments. The importance of the building itself to the learning, but also wellbeing of children and older pupils and students is arguably underestimated, and undoubtedly underfunded.
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We have Nicola Ball of KKA, describing why student accommodation is getting much more exciting (page 9), and a practical piece by partition manufacturer Neil Miller on how glass could be the answer to future classroom fl exibility. Healthy ventilation, post-pandemic, and the critical importance of getting acoustics right (as well as some good solutions), are also core subjects on our syllabus.
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Our project report is a new take on the ‘STEM’ concept, integrating the arts into science, technology, engineering and maths, to make STEAM, at a further education college building in Bridgend. The project architect explains how the confl icting requirements of spaces for noisy practical teaching have been successfully combined with quieter study spaces.
We hope you enjoy the supplement!
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Nicola Ball of architects KKA says that as universities face greater competition to attract students from home and abroad, the design of student accommodation is now a big differentiator. See page 9 for more
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