In the light of major new developments in vocational education, the boundaries between the school and workplace are becoming more permeable. These include work-based learning in the latter years of secondary school, and specialist vocational qualifications, as well as increased interest in how schools might foster entrepreneurship and enterprise.

Institutional reconfigurations

• From single to multiple institutions
• Merging of phases
• Flexible and permeable age cohorts
• School day, term and year
• Flexible time schedules
• Design of buildings and learning spaces
• Competence-based, trans-disciplinary curriculum
• Academic and pastoral division
• Smaller units within schools
• School and workplace

Role reconfigurations

Leadership reconfigurations