Education & healthcare Comment 鈥� Page 6
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CommentNot perfect but good enough for these austere times
Baseline school designs: some may think we鈥檙e selling our children short but we need to look at a system that can deliver in tough times
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CommentPriority schools: what now?
The cheer the constructon industry got from the release of the list of the 261 schools to be included in the Priority Schools 精东影视 Programme has been tempered by uncertainty about how the initiative will actually work
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CommentThe secret schools report: Failings are all too familiar
The post-occupancy evaluation, leaked to 精东影视, contains some depressingly familiar statistics
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CommentThe secret schools report: Learning from the past
The government wouldn鈥檛 reveal its post-occupancy review of schools - so 精东影视 will
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CommentEco standards in schools are slipping
Michael Gove鈥檚 free schools were meant to rip through red tape. But it鈥檚 not just the curriculum that has been relaxed - increasingly, sustainability and space requirements are being dropped too. Now fears are growing that this latest austerity measure could spread to all new schools, as Allister Hayman reports
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CommentWe can deliver cost-effective schools while keeping BREEAM
The subtext to the debate over scrapping the BREEAM standard for school buildings is that it costs too much, but, says Sean Lockie, that ignores our ability to deliver schools efficiently
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CommentSchool buildings: Could achieve great things
Schools need results and, with a new building programme on its way, the design and construction industries are the best people to deliver
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CommentProviding schools: Creative classes
We don鈥檛 have enough places for kids in the schools their parents want. A new approach is needed: adapting other public buildings for education and bringing in private help to show us how
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CommentSchools crisis: 鈥榃e have a responsibility to school our children鈥�
Barking and Dagenham has to be the council the worst affected by the demise of the 精东影视 Schools for the Future programme. We look at the impact on pupils and construction in a deprived east London borough that is fast running out of space
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CommentSetting the bar high
Is standardising design the way forward for schools? Yes, says Philip Watson, but only if 鈥榮tandardisation鈥� means 鈥榖est practice鈥� and we consider the individual needs of the school
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CommentSchools PFI: we need to learn from past mistakes
We should welcome Gove鈥檚 announcement that upto 300 schools could be built using a model based on PFI, but we also need to be on our guard
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How will academies procurement work?
As school academies move away from central control they will have to procure goods and services that were previously the responsibility of the local authority
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CommentThe James Review: Now it's up to us
The James Review talks a lot of sense and clarifies what challenges lie ahead. It should inspire architects to use the best of their skills to meet them
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Schools: How do you make standardisation and refurbishment work together?
Caroline Buckingham of HLM architects argues that the government needs to join up its policies on school buildings
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CommentMichael Gove: The bad boy in school
The education secretary got his knuckles rapped for bad-temperedly tearing up the BSF rule book. But it won鈥檛 stop him getting his way
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CommentWhat the High Court victory means for BSF
Six local authorities won a partial victory against the government鈥檚 decision to scrap BSF. What happens next?
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CommentBack to schools
With Sebastian James鈥� review of school procurement due imminently, Richard Simmons sets out his hopes and fears for the future of school design
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Future of education looks prefab
Local authorities were due to find out this week how much they will have available to spend on schools. Labour鈥檚 拢55bn 精东影视 Schools for the Future (BSF) programme has been abolished and the coalition has pledged to spend 拢15.8bn improving the school estate.
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CommentWhen does hospitality become bribery?
New legislation is leaving businesses nervous about what is and isn鈥檛 allowed
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Free schools explained: Is that a free-for-all ahead?
Controversial they may be, but free schools remain central to the government鈥檚 education vision. Private sector contractors will need to keep their eye on the chance