Education & Planning
Director, Education & Planning: Russell Andrews
Russell works widely with a range of educational and construction partners on behalf of Partnerships for Schools.
As Director of Education and Planning, Russell oversees a team responsible for supporting local authorities as they bring together their education, estate and design strategy for schools.
Russell has worked at a senior level in local authorities on school effectiveness and estate planning and prior to that taught for 16 years. Before entering teaching Russell trained and worked in the engineering sector as a graduate design engineer, engaged in a number of civil and nuclear construction projects.
He is also a governor at a school that has recently been through a successful re-build programme.
Education & Planning Team
Russell's team consists of:
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Strategic Directors for ICT and Education
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Education Directors
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Education ICT Advisers
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Director of Design
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Design Managers
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PE & Sport Advisers
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Arts & Culture Adviser
The aspirations and plans that a local authority has for how it will transform secondary education through BSF are captured in their Strategy for Change. This is key to the whole project, from first discussions with stakeholders to the successful operation of the new schools.
The Education & Planning Team's key responsibility is to ensure that local authorities develop a robust and coherent Strategy for Change that is translated into a clear business case. Information & Communications Technology (ICT) strategy, change management and delivering educational transformation will be at the heart of this strategy, which will be developed with the support of the Education & Planning Team's education, planning, design and ICT specialists.
As well as having lead responsibility for the Strategy for Change, the Education & Planning Team support local authorities preparing to enter the programme and work with Project Directors throughout the life of a BSF project, to ensure that educational transformation remains at the heart.