It makes sense in a strange Orwellian way.

'Teaching' as a way of doing the job is frowned upon these days. We have to 'enable learning'. For this ideology to become internalised we need to modify the language so that people eventually stop thinking about 'inappropriate' methods of 'instruction'.

It looks trivial but it changes the way people speak, think and do their jobs.

squashballs:

rihlana:

or kids

isnt a kid a baby goat!

You need a more up to date dictionary...

Most organisations have official terms. It might be "customer" or "client". Often the terminolgy is a bit unnatural and self-serving (eg "solutions provider" for "computer programmer").

"College" for "school" seems perfectly reasonable, especially if the official name is "St Blogs' College". Banning "kids" from public discourse is also perfectly reasonable, since it's still a slang term. "Students/learners" instead of "pupils" is pushing it a bit. To an extent you can change reality by changing the way people refer to it, but only to an extent. As other people have pointed out, you are unlikely to create a university for 11 year-olds.

jacob:

College is stupid for anthing up to Year 11. Sixth form College ok, FE College ok.

"I am at College" implies post compulsory.

Dim innit?

"College" means "community". So a college should be residential, and it should be self-governing, with the fellows electing new fellows and deciding who to admit as a junior member, what the curriculum should be, how the finances are managed, and so on.

I agree, school is until GCSE and then comes sixth form / college. What a load of rubbish to think that children will behave  in a more mature way because they "attend college" instead of "going to school".

Attending college has the meaning of being non-compulsory. Going to school is what they have to do by law, and where is the "sense of achievement" or those moving up from "school" to "college" when they now move straight to "college" aged 11 or 12, fres from primary school?

As for "enabling learning" - I have seen many things in schools that actually prevent learning, and many of them have to do with people who churn out reams and reams of mindless policies and the such.

Teachers will soon become "learning facilitators" and have to address the learners as "Sir / Madam", wait and see.

And isn't it also time that pre-school learners were given some sense of achievement by calling them something more mature...like pre-students or "early learners"? But I am sure that is already in place, only it is probably written down in one of the reams of meaningless garbage I haven't bothered to look at because I have more pressing things to do creating an environment and resources that enable even the dimmest of  students to achieve their full potential .....