Belief shifting the oversight of school property to a new entity - could set processes and buildings on a better path

It's being established after a recent Ministerial inquiry found Education Ministry management to be bureaucratic, inefficient and unfocused.

Secondary Principals' Association president Vaughan Couillault says the sector's been crying out for changes in the property space for quite some time.

He says it's a complicated beast as not all schools are the same - but simple is probably best.

Couillault says we need functional, warm, safe and sturdy - and sometimes extra earthquake measures.