Over the next few weeks we are finalising our programme for our BCSE Annual Conference – which this year has the theme: Building Better Schools – academies, free schools and the big society We are delighted to be hosting our conference this year with Manchester City Council who have led the way in thinking big [...]
Posts under ‘Seminars’
Remodelling education – key lessons from history
Yesterday’s launch event of our new resource ‘The New 3Rs’ threw up some really interesting observations from the presenters about the new landscape we are working within – and some radical options for the future of schools and school design. Interestingly many of these had their roots in the history of schooling and identify a [...]
What you may have missed in May
With so much to look forward to in June (National School Environments Week 18-25 June and the BCSE Industry Awards 24 June), we thought we’d make sure that you haven’t missed any of the important developments we picked up in May. It all seems so long ago now, but a month ago, we weren’t entirely [...]
School furniture and ergonomics – what matters?
In our second podcast I talk to world renowned ergonomics guru Dr Dieter Breithecker about his expert views on school furniture and the key messages he has for schools and professionals working in the UK. Dieter has run the Federal Institute for the Development of Posture and Exercise in Germany for the past 20 years. [...]
Post BSEC reflections
We arrived back from the 2 day BSEC conference at London Excel late last night – so a day later, we’re reflecting on the event as a whole. Ty’s presentation (see below) seemed to go down well although the atmosphere in the conference seemed a bit flat. Other people from the event also commented on [...]
Centre for School Design at BSEC
We are all at the Building Schools Exhibition and Conference (we will be sending updates via twitter using the hashtag #BSEC) for the next two days on stand 925. Ty is speaking in the morning of the 24 February to the main conference on the theme of ‘the truth about school buildings’. Baroness Estelle Morris [...]
BCSE Members Only seminar: Refresh, Refurb, Reuse & change of use?
Our latest BCSE Member Seminar is going to be covering an issue we’ve already picked up a few times on this site. We ran a one day policy conference entitled ‘Creating great remodelled schools’ in March 2009, and since then this key issue is increasingly taking centre stage. This seminar will discuss the issues behind the [...]
