We held a great seminar on monday at East Manchester Academy discussing the full range of issues connected to school acoustics. This is a topic we’ve looked at quite a bit in the past but it seemed like a good time to find out what changes had happened and will happen to the current guidance [...]
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Academies conference – 13 May 2011
We are delighted to be the main supporting organisation for the upcoming Wellington College run Academies Conference that takes place on Friday 13 May 2011. The Secretary of State, the Rt. Hon Michael Gove MP, will give the keynote speech and will be joined by other leading figures, including Lord Andrew Adonis, Elizabeth Sidwell (the [...]
Free schools – opening up the debate
We are just doing some final edits of video material from Gleeds TV from last year’s British Council for School Environments Annual conference and in particular the debate about Free Schools – with Fiona Millar, Indy Johar, Jon de Maria, Sobia Bashir, Dale Bassett and Pascale Scheurer – is one of the best and most [...]
Lord Knight: the future of school design
The BCSE Building Better Schools conference was in full swing one week ago. We are still getting some great feedback from participants and speakers alike – including this comment from leading journalist Fiona Millar:
Building Better Schools conference – have your say
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 [...]
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 [...]
