All Education and healthcare articles – Page 83
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FeaturesIn my day: Industry greats reminisce about their schooldays
These tykes grew up to become pillars of the construction community – despite the overheated classrooms and endless dark corridors. So how would they redesign those grim sixties cellblocks they called ‘school’?
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FeaturesSchools funding: adding up for politicians
Once the UK’s borrowing hits 12% of GDP, how much money will be available to build schools? Well, that depends on how the next government does its sums
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FeaturesPenoyre & Prasad’s John Perryn primary school: Start again!
John Perryn primary in east Acton had lost the confidence of parents, staff and Ofsted. So the government stepped in to rebuild it, with a little help from Penoyre & Prasad and Willmott Dixon
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FeaturesTim Byles: 'We're firing on all cylinders'
There’s no doubt the pace has picked up since Tim Byles took over the running of the Building Schools for the Future programme. But with all the uncertainties of the economy and next year’s election, will he be able to keep up the momentum?
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NewsColleges forced back to basics for LSC cash
Colleges forced into huge cutbacks on project sustainability, scope and design to win LSC funding
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CommentBack to schools: Building in a recession
Question one. How can we keep spending billions on school building while struggling with the biggest crisis in our public finances since the war?
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NewsEric Parry wins planning for £4.5m music facility at Wells Cathedral School
Mendip council approves plan for new music building and sports pavilion
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NewsFMB calls for more rural affordable homes
Federation calls for radical overhaul of planning system in response to news that one rural primary school is closing every month
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NewsCostain seals deal on £230m Bradford schools scheme
Consortium reaches financial close on scheme to deliver eight schools in second phase of city's BSF programme
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NewsLSC gives 12 colleges go-ahead
Skills body has granted final approval to schemes that were revised after funding debacle
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NewsBSF funding opened up to beleaguered sixth form colleges
Decision will be lifeline for the institutions that were forced to put development plans on ice after Learning and Skills Council blew budget by more than 150%
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NewsProject of the month: Birmingham's £2.4bn BSF programme
The achievement of financial close on the Catalyst Lend Lease project shows banks still have an appetite for large-scale BSF
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NewsCatalyst Lend Lease reaches financial close on Birmingham BSF
Bovis Lend Lease is construction partner on 15-year transformation of the city's secondary, primary and special schools
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NewsCarillion picked for £192m Rochdale BSF
Programme includes delivery of 13 new or refurbished schools over four years
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NewsCarillion agrees funding for £500m Durham BSF deal
Financial close reached on contract that will see 40 new schools built in ten years
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NewsTories to take axe to Partnerships for Schools
Senior Conservatives back report by right-wing think tank that calls for delivery body to be replaced
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CommentPartnerships for Schools: How to get our fingers burnt
It may be more the season for barbecues than bonfires, but the trail of lighter fuel moved a bit closer to one of the most influential quangos in construction this week.
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NewsStoke reveals BSF contract winners
Balfour Beatty and Thomas Vale/Wates JV named as design and build partners for the city's £250m schools programme
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NewsNo summer holiday for the BSF programme
Rather than shutting down for the summer holidays BSF schools will open their doors to the local community
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NewsTories to take axe to Partnerships for Schools
Senior Conservatives back report by right-wing think tank that calls for delivery body to be replaced