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UK Students needed for Ugandan School Design Challenge

Class of Your Own (COYO), the UK’s pioneering provider of accredited learning programmes for the technical and professional built environment, is looking for UK schools to get involved in their next national Design, Engineer, Construct! (DEC) competition: the Vision Hope School for Parabongo, a village in Northern Uganda.

Working alongside the UK based charity, Seeds for Development (Seeds); COYO’s 2015 challenge aims to get secondary school students across the UK actively involved in designing a new eco-school for children in Parabongo. The new school will provide an education to 1,000 children aged 3-18, and will teach numeracy, literacy, science, technology and engineering – alongside basic life skills such as growing food and personal hygiene. Read more →

2014 Free Schools: The Institute of Design, Space and Place at Manchester wins place on national programme with the New Schools Network

The Institute of Design, Space and Place (IDSP) at Manchester has won a place on a highly respected national development programme designed to provide tailored support for groups that want to set up new Free Schools.

Run by independent education charity the New Schools Network (NSN), the Development Programme provides personalised support to Free Schools groups as they prepare to submit an application to the Department for Education (DfE) to open a Free School from 2015.

The Institute of Design, Space and Place will be the UK’s first post-16 education centre for budding young professionals specialising in sustainable design, engineering and construction. Aiming to open in September 2016, this brand new concept has been established by the UK’s first social enterprise for built environment education, Class of Your Own (COYO).

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“Spaghetti and Marshmallows” Youth Excellence Seminar

Guest Blog by Constructing Excellence Yorkshire & Humber

Constructing Excellence in Yorkshire and Humberside started the New Years’ series with its Youth Excellence event yesterday at the Rose Bowl at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Caroline Key chaired the first event of 2014, Caroline is regional coordinator for G4C, Generation for Change part of Constructing Excellence, driving the change agenda and ensuring best practice for the next generation of construction professionals.

Caroline introduced the effervescent and inspirational Alison Watson who has gained wide respect among not only her peers but also influential decision makers in Government, for raising the profile of (if not introducing to some!) the concept of the construction professional as a fantastic career prospect as a healthy alternative to the overplayed ‘Bob the Builder’ message.

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COYO Teacher of the Year 2013

The young people who go through the Design Engineer Construct! programme amaze us with their talent, as they have amazed people all around the world. Their skills have been celebrated on all social media platforms, and some of their projects have won top awards both in this country and internationally.

The children we work with however are not superhuman; to our knowledge they do not leap over mountains or have the highest IQs mankind has ever known. Instead, they all have one thing in common.

Behind every single one of these amazing young people is a great teacher.

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