Campus of the Future

I recently took part in an excellent multi-disciplinary Arup Foresight workshop looking at the STEEP (Social, Technical, Economic, Environmental and Political) drivers for the future of the university. At the end of the day the vast majority of us voted for The Village Campus, one of four options arranged around integrated/segregated and physical/virtual cross-axes. The other options were Open Education, A la Carte E-Learning and Faculty Islands. As part of the 'brain food' Annette Smith reminded us that lecturing was a cheap but very ineffective way of learning, Andy Black dazzled us with social media and Sean McDougall shocked us with the idea that on the basis that: 1. 80% of black children leave school at 16 while 97% of white middle class girls go to University 2. 99% of London teachers are white but 50% pupils have one non-white parent Schools are designed for those going to University but the other 50% need different kinds of space.