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 [...]
James Review is (finally) here
After a long wait, we finally have the Independent Review of Education Capital – the James Review – which sets out the 16 recommendations for the reform of the way schools are procured, designed and built.
Still waiting for Sebastian James…
The long heralded James Review on the future of schools capital seems to have had more pencilled-in launch dates than a NASA Shuttle. But we are pretty confident it will be launched shortly… For an industry that thrives on certainty, local authorities that need to plan and schools that need investment, this delay has implications. [...]
Free Schools debate – video finally live
The best things come to those who wait!! After a long while pulling the videos together, here is our fantastic free schools debate that took place at our BCSE Annual Conference last November. The views of this wonderfully diverse panel are a fascinating insight into the hot issues at the centre of the free schools [...]
Capital ‘James’ Review – our submission
It is clear that the much awaited Government’s Review of Capital Investment led by Sebastian James (pictured left) will represent a significant milestone in the development of a new approach to investing in the infrastructure and facilities in our schools across the country. The challenge is clear: how do we maintain a level of investment, [...]
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 [...]
New Year: time for fresh thinking on school capital
It’s been a long break from Centre for School Design activity – but with a lot of British Council for School Environments work in December including a study tour to New York and New Jersey, a new board of trustees and chairperson (Rachel Jones), a new office move to Islington, a second screening of the [...]
Studio Schools – if its good enough for Da Vinci…
Yesterday’s national launch of Studio Schools represents a major step forward for thinking about future schooling. This has been a patient, studied five year evolution that is set to be one of the much needed revolutions the system needs. Incubated and piloted under New Labour and now validated by the Coalition this could represent a [...]
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:
