**What is LCET?**
Project History	Aims	What did the money buy	The LCET Board	The LCET Project team

**Project History**
	The 21st Century Learning Initiative (formerly The Education 2000 Trust) was a group of leading British Industrialist and Educationalists with John Abbott, ex head teacher of Alleynes School in Stevenage, as their director. The concern of this group was that schools in Britain were not preparing their pupils for the changes that would happen by the end of this century. In 1985 all the secondary schools in Letchworth - two private and four state schools - were chosen to put into practice the theory of The 21st Century Learning Initiative Their aims were: to make education the responsibility of the whole community. to try to instil in pupils an approach which would make them life long learners to make pupils confident and familiar with modern technologies
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**Aims**
	to make education the responsibility of the whole community. to try to instil in pupils an approach which would make them life long learners to make pupils confident and familiar with modern technologies They felt that these aims were so important that they "put their money where their mouth was" so to speak and as a result, starting in 1985, £2,000,000 poured into the Letchworth Secondary Schools.
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**What Did this Money Buy?**
	It bought time for teachers to: review their teaching methods to shift the emphasis from teaching to learning get to grips with New Technologies and to go out on work experience placements in the local community. This was achieved by increasing the staffing of the schools by 10%. It bought state of the art technology in the form of: computers - 1 for every 10 pupils satellite dishes and video recorders amazing computerised synthesisers to facilitate composition in the music departments that would have made Salieri eat his heart out.
	The Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation made office space and services available on the top floor of the Headquarters in Broadway and we're still there. When the The 21st Century Learning Initiative moved from Letchworth to Leeds in 1988 and then on to seven other parts of the country the Letchworth Project took the name of Hertfordshire 2000. At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the board in September 1996 it was decided that since the main focus of the project was Letchworth, the name Hertfordshire 2000 was very misleading. The name was therefore changed to the Letchworth Community Education Trust also emphasising our brief that education is the responsibility of the whole community and not just the schools.
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**The LCET Board**
	Mr Keith Emsall - Chairman Mrs Sue Cook - Careers Consultant Mr Bob Hopcraft - Head teacher St Nicholas CE JMI School Mr Simon Holtom - local farmer Mr Stuart Kenny - Director General of Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation Mrs Lynne Monck - Head teacher Fearnhill Secondary School Mr Frank Morris - Mr Stuart Philp - Chief Executive of North Herts District Council Mr Colin Reid - Head teacher of St Christopher School Mr Geoffrey Steeley - former Director of Planning for Hertfordshire County Council
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**The Project Team**

Mr Mike Fischer - Director - Chief Executive of Research Machines Mrs Ann Crook - Deputy Project Director - former Deputy Head teacher at Fearnhill School Mr Nick Peace - IT Manager Mr Bob Wardale - IT Consultant and LEN Project Manager Mrs Karen Chamberlain - Secretary

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