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**GREEN EDUCATION POLICY** ** Education for Sustainable Development **

Building Schools for the Future is the only one of its kind in the U.K. It is built on an integrated and holistic understanding of Education for Sustainable Development as part of informed policy unlike much of what we see in Australia.

“Sustainability provides a framework that can unite the many different government policies and initiatives related to schools and local communities. But making Sustainable Schools a reality requires a significant culture change across the whole school community. New buildings will achieve little on their own without changes in working practices and systems.” **
 * (Jane Wilkson, Leading sustainable school building projects, UK)
 * What is Building Schools for the Future?**

Building Schools for the Future is an immensely ambitious programme designed to rebuild or refurbish all secondary schools in England

over 15 years at a cost of £45 billion, with local authorities participating in a series of 15 ‘waves’. It is the most comprehensive of a

number of initiatives to improve the schools estate that the Government has introduced since 1997. As well as being a project to improve

radically the fabric of school buildings and provide massive investment in ICT, it has been explicitly designed to transform the educational

experiences of pupils and, more recently, to embed sustainability. To address this challenge the National College for School Leadership

(NCSL) developed its Building Schools for the Future (BSF) Leadership Programme in 2006. The aim is to support school leaders through the BSF process.

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