A parliamentary inquiry has recommended that open-plan classrooms should be avoided, and that no public school should have more than 50 per cent of its classrooms as demountables.

The Grattan Institute is urging the Victorian government to stop building open-plan classrooms and return to more traditional classroom design, until it has more evidence the voguish spaces ...

For example, in 2017 the New South Wales government committed to building open-plan classrooms, each for up to 120 students, at more than 100 new schools. The Victorian government is building ...

Open-plan classrooms were promoted as a way to encourage collaboration and flexibility in schools. But after 14 years, the government is going back to basics with school design.

Open-plan classrooms proliferated when “team teaching” became fashionable in the 1970s, but parents, students and teachers have long complained of noisy environments unsuitable for learning.