The College as a Real Work Environment

Jeremy Gibberd
Grace Kenny
Architects and Building Branch
Department for Education
London, UK

Citation: Gibberd, Jeremy and Grace Kenny (1993). "The College as a Real Work Environment." Children's Environments 10 (2): 164-180. Retrieved [date] from http://www.colorado.edu/journals/cye/

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Abstract

Training and education for the 16-19 age group in the United Kingdom are undergoing changes both in the status of the providing institutions, which have recently been granted independence from their local education authorities, and in the types of courses which are provided. Skills-based technical disciplines are now taught through the attainment of defined levels of competence. Institutions need to provide accommodation which simulates the settings which students will find in the workplace, but they need to continue to provide support accommodation for traditional and self-centered learning of a more academic kind. Specialized accommodation is expensive to provide and maintain; careful, flexible design and sensitive management enable optimum use to be made of it by a range of students, of varying ages and levels of attainment. Traditional types of colleges may be compared with the new colleges with their “learning environments.”

Keywords: teenagers, college, design