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The learning environment

Jeremy was looking around a primary school a few years ago. It had been open for only six months and he remembers being so impressed with both the building and what the teachers had done in the classrooms to help support the children’s learning. The classrooms had high ceilings and lots of glass, there was the latest technology at the teacher’s fingertips, the rooms were awash with colour, there were segmented learning areas and you could see everyone connected with the school loved the environment they had both inherited and created. All very different from the memory of his own education.

In contrast to this excellent learning environment, we have delivered business training courses in less than salubrious surroundings. ...

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