Preparing for disruption: developing institutional capability for decentralized education technologies

A good paper here from Scott Wilson looking at the need to decentralise technologies in higher education institutions, but the points could equally apply to primary/secondary schools.

The beginning of the end for the industrial schooling system?

Knowsley Council in Merseyside, has abolished the use of the word school to describe secondary education in the borough. It is taking the dramatic step of closing all of its eleven existing secondary schools by 2009. As part of a £150m government-backed rebuilding programme, they will reopen as seven state-of-the-art, round-the-clock, learning centres 

This is a developement that will be worth keeping an eye on.