'BSF schedule slips could cost £250,000 a week'
What has Building Schools for the Future – the Government’s massive £45 billion school rebuilding programme for secondary schools in England – got in common with a galloping horse?
View ArticleVirtually there: Second Life models BSF schools
The virtual world of Second Life has come to Middlesbrough BSF projects thanks to developers at the local City Learning Centre. Mindful of the 'visioning' needs - as well as the potential for expensive...
View ArticleBSF pupil voice nets Hounslow students £30,000
By Juliette Heppell Year 9 students from Lampton School in Hounslow, London, have won a Classroom of the Future competition to research and design a futuristic school learning space. Pupils at the...
View ArticleBSF contract fears follow Conservative's SSAT reply
By Bob HarrisonShadow schools minister Nick Gibb MP attracted a full house for his session on Conservative education policy at the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust’s 17th annual conference in...
View ArticleTranscript challenges Bristol Brunel ICT furore
By Maureen McTaggart According to The Times, Armando Di-Finizio, head of Bristol Brunel Academy, one of the first Building Schools for the Future (BSF) schools, thinks schools “could be led up the...
View Article'Pupils not heard in BSF process' – Futurelab survey
By Bob HarrisonPupils are not being engaged or listened to in the planning for Building Schools for the Future programme, according to the results of a survey – "Building and re-designing schools:...
View ArticleShadow minister - 'Tories could cancel BSF schemes'
Schools yet to reach financial close in the Building Schools for the Future programme, a key source of school ICT investment, will be worried by a report on the Education Investor website that a...
View ArticleICT fares well in BSF review - but not transformation
By Bob HarrisonAt first glance the 65 mentions "ICT" gets in a word search of PricewaterhouseCoopers' third evaluation of the BSF project seems a positive indication that ICT – wouldn’t it be better to...
View ArticleWigan peerless – Abraham Guest sets a benchmark
Sally McKeown goes on an unforgettable school visitThe new Abraham Guest High School in Wigan only opened a few weeks ago and pupils are now enjoying premises which are stuffed with brilliant...
View ArticleLeeds learners celebrate ICT evolution in BSF
By Bob Harrison and Andy BlackLeeds learners, teachers and education services supplier RM showcased some of the solid school achievements of the Building Schools for the Future programme at a special...
View ArticleRM takes £1.5m BSF hit at 'end of big ICT schemes'
The scrapping of the £55 billion Building Schools for the Future programme has prompted education services supplier RM to restructure and sustain £1.5 million “exceptional costs”. An Interim Management...
View ArticleBSF 'abuse of power' ruling a chance to right a wrong
A High Court judge ruled that Michael Gove abused his powers when he axed BSF projects for six local authorities. Sal McKeown gives her personal perspective on BSF and special schools in Kent....
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