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Summary

The Beyond Current Horizons programme, conducted with the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), explores the future for education, beyond 2025. The aim is to help our education system prepare for and develop an ongoing and sustainable response to the challenges it faces as society and technology rapidly evolve. Visit the Beyond Current Horizons website for more information. Go to: www.beyondcurrenthorizons.org.uk.

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Visit the Beyond Current Horizons website for the latest findings, outcomes and six possible future scenarios developed from the extensive programme of research. Go to: www.beyondcurrenthorizons.org.uk.

One of the main outcomes from the Beyond Current Horizons programme is Vision Mapper, a practical online toolkit designed to support long-term planning initiatives such as school redesign and curriculum planning. Vision Mapper provides inspirational and practical materials, along with group activities and materials to help you prepare your organisation for the future. Go to: www.visionmapper.org.uk.

A new video looking at ideas drawn in the main from research commissioned under the Beyond Current Horizons programme, is now available. The video, entitled Make the future, considers the future of education in the light of social and technological change over the next two decades.

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Beyond Current Horizons

New futures report

New futures report

This report is informed by expert interviews with seven futures practitioners, who agreed to confidentially share their views, and by desk research. The report aims to give an introductory overview of futures work and offer some common ways of categorising it.

Maintaining futures expertise report (pdf)