2008
02 September 2008
Partnerships for Schools has published its Annual Report for 2007/08. Copies can be downloaded from this website...
01 September 2008
Thousands of students and teachers across England will going back to new and improved schools this month, as 22 schools open for the first time as part of the national Building Schools for the Future programme…
21 August 2008
Students across the country have been collecting their GCSE results today, including those at a number of schools which have been refurbished or built from scratch as part of the national Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme...
21 August 2008
The percentage of students achieving top GCSE grades has almost doubled at the first new build Building Schools for the Future (BSF) school…
20 August 2008
RM has confirmed that it has reached contractual close for a £24.5m, five-year contract to provide managed ICT services to the London Borough of Haringey’s BSF programme...
12 August 2008
The first non-schools project to be procured through BSF has been announced this week by Leeds City Council...
11 August 2008
The latest edition of Insite, the PfS quarterly, is now published. This edition features case studies from Stoke and Leicester, a feature on the NFER study published in May, and Bristol's latest BSF school...
28 July 2008
Partnerships for Schools (PfS) has announced two additions to its management team, including a new Operations Director role created to provide extra capacity at a senior level as the national Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme gains momentum.
24 July 2008
Partnerships for Schools has issued a statement in response to an article in The Guardian [21 July] regarding the quality of school design in the BSF programme...
14 July 2008
Partnerships for Schools has signalled its continued commitment to high-quality design within the Building Schools for the Future programme with the appointment of a new Director of Design to lead the in-house team of design experts...
14 July 2008
A roll of drums heralded the start of a colourful ceremony to mark the opening of Bristol’s newest secondary school, Bristol Metropolitan College, on Friday 11 July...
11 July 2008
Two people in their 80s will go back to school today to help open Bristol’s newest secondary school, Bristol Metropolitan College...
01 July 2008
The first awards to celebrate achievement across all areas of the national Building Schools for the Future programme have been announced today by Partnerships for Schools...
23 June 2008
Eight local authorities are to be fast-tracked to join the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme from this summer...
16 June 2008
Nottingham City Council's press release about reaching Financial Close on their BSF programme...
16 June 2008
Partnerships for Schools is today marking another milestone as it reaches the 20th Financial Close in BSF, the national programme to rebuild and renew England’s secondary schools estate...
11 June 2008
The Chief Executive of PfS today called on ICT industry players involved in BSF to re-double their efforts in identifying and implementing a way for schools, local authorities and other agencies involved in education to collect data about students in a “write once, use many times model”...
09 June 2008
Partnerships for Schools has confirmed the new advisers for the Financial Advisory Services Framework, which came into effect on 9 June 2008...
05 June 2008
The Bristol Brunel Academy has been named as one of the 2008 RIBA Award winners for the Wessex area in the Royal Institute of British Architects annual awards...
02 June 2008
Students at one of the first BSF schools to open say they feel safer and enjoy going to school more now because of their new surroundings, according to a study conducted by the National Foundation for Education Research...
02 June 2008
The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), supported by PfS, are holding three half-day workshops this month, in London and York, as part of the consultation on the management of Building Schools for the Future...
28 May 2008
PfS and the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) today announced that the two organisations will be working more closely in the future to ensure that all new schools benefit from high-quality design...
21 May 2008
A review of how the Local Education Partnership model - established to deliver the BSF programme - is working has been announced by PfS...
15 May 2008
Students from a special educational needs school in Greenwich and a youth theatre group from the European Capital of Culture 2008 will take to the stage in the House of Commons today with their versions of two Shakespearean tragedies...
13 May 2008
A series of high-quality school design guidance booklets, the Standard Specifications, Layouts and Dimensions (SSLD), has been officially launched by the DCSF and PfS.
06 May 2008
A new-look procurement process for BSF, which will significantly reduce costs for bidders and enable local authorities to deliver their schools sooner than previously possible, will be rolled-out before the end of the year following approval by the Minister for Schools, Jim Knight MP...
06 May 2008
Bolton and Blackburn with Darwen councils are to share the challenge of BSF, in a bid to attract top architects and builders for a £500m programme to transform every secondary school in both boroughs...
01 May 2008
The BSF Bristol Brunel Academy has been named as the ‘Best operational local government project' award in this year's Public:Private Finance Awards...
29 April 2008
Partnerships for Schools (PfS) and the National College for School Leadership (NCSL) today announced that the two organisations will be working more closely in the future to deliver training and development courses for schools and local authorities engaged in BSF...
21 April 2008
Partnerships for Schools and 4ps today announced closer working relationships between the two organisations as part of the move towards a single gateway on BSF...
21 April 2008
The latest edition of Insite, the PfS quarterly, is now published. This edition features The Michael Tippett School, an interview with Sir John Sorrell and an update from Westminster City Council...
10 April 2008
Newham Learning Partnership (NLP), a consortium led by Laing O’Rourke Portfolio Projects, has been selected by Newham Council to deliver a £200 million Building Schools for the Future programme...
09 April 2008
Partnerships for Schools has welcomed the publication by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) of a consultation document which includes proposals to accelerate entry into BSF...
03 April 2008
Students and staff from The Michael Tippett School in Lambeth today showed the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, the Rt Hon Ed Balls MP, around their state-of-the-art building when he officially opened their new Special Educational Needs school...
31 March 2008
The end of the financial year has seen PfS meet its 2007/8 delivery targets as the programme to rebuild or remodel state secondary schools across England has gathered pace...
25 March 2008
Tameside is one step closer to transforming the borough’s secondary schools after appointing Inspiredspaces to deliver the £300m programme...
18 March 2008
Partnerships for Schools has unveiled its new-look open source website at the ICT in Building Schools for the Future event in London on Tuesday 18 March.
13 March 2008
The building blocks are in place for Sunderland’s Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme following financial close.
26 February 2008
Students in Stoke-on-Trent are this week starting work in a brand new school – the 10th school to open as part of BSF.
05 February 2008
Savings of up to £0.25 billion could be made across the national Building Schools for the Future programme, significantly reducing costs for bidders and making the procurement process more timely and efficient, according to the preliminary findings of the BSF Procurement Review. Proposed new processes emerging from the Review are set to deliver important time savings of up to two months, making this part of the process even more streamlined and efficient.
31 January 2008
Nottingham City Council has announced Inspiredspaces as their selected bidder for their £90m BSF project. The Inspiredspaces consortium includes Carillion as a construction partner and Ramesys as the ICT managed service provider.
18 January 2008
This year's BETT, the world's largest education technology show, was held on 9-12 January, and was another successful year for Partnerships for Schools.
16 January 2008
Tim Byles has announced that Partnerships for Schools will be revising its Strategy for Change documentation to recommend that all local authorities entering the Building Schools for the Future programme get pupils more involved in the design process for their schools.
