2010
13 December 2010
The Secretary of State for Education has now announced details of capital funding to schools and local authorities for 2011-12.
01 October 2010
Two contractors - Wates and Sir Robert McAlpine - have been named as the firms in the running to design and rebuild a Doncaster school worth around £10.5 million, which suffered significant fire damage in December 2009.
22 September 2010
The Department for Education (DfE) has announced that the independent Capital Review team is working with building companies on a pilot proposal to rebuild Campsmount Technology College in Doncaster.
13 September 2010
At the start of the new school term around £70m worth of construction projects have been released to the market through the Partnerships for Schools Contractors' Framework.
06 August 2010
The Department for Education (DfE) has today announced the outcome of the review of Building Schools for the Future (BSF) sample schools and Academy building projects which were listed as 'for discussion' on 5 July 2010.
The DfE website has further information on today's announcement, including a list showing the impact of the announcement on all sample school and Academy projects reviewed.
05 July 2010
Details about the review announced on Monday 5 July by the Secretary of State, the Rt Hon Michael Gove, including his statement to the House of Commons and a table showing the impact of the announcement for all Building Schools for the Future projects, can be found on the Department for Education website.
05 July 2010
Partnerships for Schools (PfS) - the organisation responsible for management and delivery of the full suite of schools capital programmes, including Building Schools for the Future, Academies and the Primary Capital Programme - has welcomed the review announced today by the Secretary of State, the Rt Hon Michael Gove.
02 July 2010
In recent months we have added a number of new case studies to the collection, including:
A look at the vision behind Academy 360 and how this became a reality; a focus on the adiZone at Sutton Lawn in Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire; a look at Broadway School in Birmingham which was decanted to provide a speedier route to the construction of a new school; and how pupils at Acklam Grange School in Middlesbrough have been involved in the development of their new school.
05 April 2010
Cumbria County Council was has been given the go-ahead to join the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme. Schools Secretary Ed Balls announced today [5 April] that £61.5m would be invested across the county as part of the once-in-a-generation programme to rebuild or refurbish England's entire secondary school estate. The total is indicative funding and includes £5.5m for ICT.
01 April 2010
This month we add two new case studies to the collection...
24 March 2010
Partnerships for Schools (PfS) has been shortlisted in the 'Best Central Government Team' category in the Public Private Finance Awards 2010...
18 March 2010
The third annual independent evaluation of the BSF programme carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) - which finds clear early evidence that BSF schools are raising pupil aspirations and improving behaviour - is published today...
18 March 2010
Design professionals with the skills, experience and knowledge about what makes a good school are being encouraged to apply to become an accredited Client Design Adviser (CDA) to work with local authorities, schools, communities and contractors as part of the national Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme...
11 March 2010
Becta has announced the publication of the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) notice for the first of two new ICT Services procurement frameworks, which uniquely focus on the provision of effective learner centric ICT services for educational institutions...
10 March 2010
Two new case studies from February have been added to the growing bank of lessons learned and top tips from schools projects across the country.
08 March 2010
Six more local authorities across England have today been given the green light to join the national Building Schools for the Future programme to rebuild or refurbish secondary schools in their area.
04 March 2010
The Building Schools for the Future programme has reached a significant milestone with the 50th deal signed between a local authority and its private sector partner to rebuild and refurbish schools, bringing the total value of contracts signed to over £5 billion.
26 February 2010
Today (26 February) Partnerships for Schools (PfS), the government agency responsible for delivering the national Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, held the first academy-focused open day at the award-winning Academy 360 in Sunderland.
24 February 2010
Building Schools for the Future (BSF) will help improve education in their area by providing young people, teachers and communities with schools and facilities fit for the 21st century, according to over 90 per cent of local authorities and private sector companies involved in BSF who were interviewed.
08 February 2010
Six new case studies from January have been added to the growing bank of lessons learned and top tips from BSF projects across the country.
28 January 2010
The Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, the Rt Hon Ed Balls MP, today saw the first school Energy Display Meter in action as part of a £12 million energy efficiency initiative to help schools and pupils to become more aware of energy use.
25 January 2010
A new guidance document to support local authorities’ decisions in relation to historic school buildings has been published today by English Heritage, in conjunction with Partnerships for Schools (PfS) and the Department for Children, School and Families (DCSF).
21 January 2010
An award-winning school in Leicester, today (Thursday 21 January 2010) held an Open Day to show off its fantastic new building and learning environment to visitors from across the country.
11 January 2010
Thirteen more schools from Knowsley in the north to Southwark in the south will open in new or refurbished learning environments in January 2010 as part of the national Building Schools for the Future (BSF) and Academies programmes. This brings the total number of pupils to benefit from BSF investment to around 125,000 in 146 schools across England.
