All education articles
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NewsDfE to bring forward new ‘alliancing’ framework for contractors
Collaborative framework based on MoJ model to be designed to deliver flagship 500-school building programme
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FeaturesBuilding The Future Commmission: Attracting, engaging and retaining the next generation
After a year of consultation and careful consideration, the Building the Future Commission has published its final report. In this chapter, Ben Flatman considers the challenges facing construction in its quest to employ the brightest and best
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FeaturesInside UCL East’s new £250m Marshgate campus
With the biggest development in its history, UCL wanted to create a new type of university campus. Daniel Gayne reports on how the team got on
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NewsEducation sees spending boost in wake of RAAC crisis, as infrastructure falls
Spending on sector hit £700m in August, says Barbour ABI
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NewsT-levels need ‘considerable work’ to succeed, Ofsted warns
Students are ‘misled’ about content of courses while industry placements can be inappropriate, regulator finds
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FeaturesHow do we fix England’s crumbling school estate?
Building has been writing about concerns about the conditions of schools long before the RAAC crisis hit the spotlight. Here we republish a piece we published on the need for refurbishment back in July.
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FeaturesCan architects restore faith in their technical expertise?
With major changes to architectural education under way, the Building the Future Commission speaks to professionals from across property, architecture and education about the potential for a reinvigorated profession
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News‘Outdated’ perceptions mean construction overlooked by young people, CIOB survey finds
Sector seen as ‘overly physical’ and less lucrative than others
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FeaturesCost model: Universities need to answer tough questions about their priorities
Aecom’s Rory Armstrong and Steven Jenkins explain what’s happening in the tertiary education sector and offer a cost model of a typical building
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NewsMinisters accused of withholding data on England’s crumbling school estate
Labour to force release of survey in parliament
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FeaturesThe fine art of creating a new campus for the RCA
In their scale and singularity, these flagship buildings designed by Herzog & de Meuron in Battersea strike just the right balance
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NewsGreen light for redevelopment of Oxford’s Hertford College
Scheme at historic site drawn up by Camden architect
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FeaturesUniversity challenge: the LSE’s new Marshall Building
The brief called for sports and arts facilities, as well as teaching and research space – it inspired a highly innovative response
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NewsFull list of £7bn school building framework winners announced
Close to 30 firms appointed to array of lots
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CommentWe must attract more young people to a job making history
The skills shortage facing construction is particularly acute within more niche, highly skilled roles. So it’s time for the Year of the Craftsperson, says Adrian Attwood
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CommentSchools are leading the way to net zero
The rest of the industry is waking up to designing carbon-neutral buildings, but the education sector has been addressing energy efficiency for decades. Once the motive was cutting costs; now it is all about reducing emissions, Alan Fogarty writes
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NewsCouncil launches £150m contractors’ framework
Three year framework to be used for school projects
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NewsBig name consultants drafted in for major schools condition programme
DfE asks Aecom, Faithful + Gould and Rider Levett Bucknall to survey the school and FE college estate