The seat of learning
Schools face a number of unique challenges: insufficient budgets, teacher shortages, student performance assessments and technology-driven lessons are just a few. A solution to these problems could be simpler than you ever thought. Amazingly, it could come down to the right kind of furniture!
This is the belief of Jonathan Hindle, Group Managing Director at KI. "Furniture is a crucial component in creating a quality learning environment," he says. "Seating should be comfortable and durable and work surfaces ought to be able to accommodate specific tasks including note-taking, laptop computer use and conducting experiments. Beyond these functional aspects, the image portrayed correlates to student perception of teachers' performance expectations - an attractive, highly functional, quality environment tells them you expect excellence."
