How To Cool Hot Classrooms
Three quarters of teachers said classrooms were too hot to work and learn properly in. They have renewed calls for improved regulations to limit classroom temperatures.
This has been in response to a recent consultation by the UK Department of Education (DofE) on proposed changes to school premises regulations, launched in early February 2012. The NASUWT, the largest teachers union in the UK, has called on the government to improve rules on both ventilation and temperature.
A temperature monitoring study was carried out last June and July across the UK. It revealed that more than three quarters of teachers experienced classroom temperatures in excess of 24