The 50th school in the massive Building Schools for the Future (BSF) renewal programme has just opened. Sedgehill School in Lewisham will be followed by 200 schools over the next couple of years and 1,000 are currently in the pipeline.
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Posts on ‘January 29th, 2009’
Stephen Heppell: ‘What sounded radical one year is widely adopted the next’
It has been a remarkable year since we last gathered at The Building Schools Exhibition and Conference (BSEC) to debate how best to roll out a new generation of ambitious 21st-century learning spaces.
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Rewired for a new era: New schools are putting IT at the heart of their plans
It’s hard to imagine, but there was a time when schools existed without computers. Now, of course, information technology underpins much, if not all, of what happens in a school, and when a new school is built – or rebuilt – the technological plan is at the heart of all decisions.
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Universities call for new degree classifications
University vice-chancellors have condemned the current 200-year-old degree classification system as “outmoded” – claiming it did not tell employers enough about students.
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Official: children must not drink a drop
All children should be guaranteed an alcohol-free childhood, parents will be told by the Government today.
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Hannah Jones: Local authorities need to be brave, ready, quick – and think big
It’s time for English local authorities to go talent spotting for staff who can transform schools. If they fail to develop staff from both inside and outside their own organisations they will miss unique opportunities to revitalise whole communities.
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Profile: Hadden Park High School, Nottingham
When prospective parents visit Hadden Park High School, in north-west Nottingham, their attention is directed firmly towards the model of the refurbished school which sits in the run-down entrance hall.
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Leading Article: The diploma that could fail
The whole point of the Government’s s to run alongside A-levels is that they would do away with the old divide between the academic, which meant prestigious and leading to university, and the vocational, which meant low-level and low-status. By devising a new qualification to be taken by all children, the brainy and the not-so-brainy, [...]
Where February is the new September
The banner headline on the home page of Thames Valley University’s website sums up the change succinctly. “For starting university, February is the new September,” it says.
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