All Education articles – Page 30
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NewsBSF finish for Astudio Architecture
Astudio Architecture’s £37 million school in Tower Hamlets has officially opened.
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OpinionLearning from school history
Your leader (“The only certainty is change”, February 25) makes depressing reading for architects.
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Opinion
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It is notable that the politicians who are willing to hand over school design to corporations with no knowledge or experience of design for the educational field were themselves all educated in the wonderful environments of bespoke historic buildings.
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Archial's Scottish construction training building opens
Scotland’s first minister Alex Salmond has officially opened Archial’s construction training facility for Aberdeen College.
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NewsBrady: Architects need to show off their skills
Incoming RIBA president Angela Brady said architects must convince the government of their role in delivering good schools if they are to play a role in school building.
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NewsTest school saves government £4 million
The government has saved £4m on a significantly shortened procurement process for a school in Doncaster.
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NewsConstruction progress for Broadway Malyan college
Practice’s £66 million Bournville College at Longbridge has topped out this week.
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NewsAHMM director says his academy proves importance of good design
The architect of the multi-award-winning Westminster Academy has mounted a robust defence of the profession’s role in school building.
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Web tool launched to help free schools find sites
Partnerships for Schools has launched an online search service to help groups interested in setting up free schools find potential sites in their area.
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NewsPrasad rallies the profession on school design
“There’s a fight on” says former RIBA president as he insists architects can make standardisation succeed
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NewsSchools architects likened to oxen
Schools architects in the brave new world of standardisation have been likened to oxen after the invention of tractors
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Building StudyCity of Westminster College by Schmidt Hammer Lassen
City of Westminster College, the Learning & Skills Council’s last grand vision, leaves a dramatic monument to a bygone age.
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NewsWigglesworth attacks Gove's 'factory schools'
Architect Sarah Wigglesworth has launched a broadside against Michael Gove and the government’s plans for standardisation of school design.
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AnalysisIs it all over for school design?
With BSF axed, projects are decreasing, with some practices taking their skills abroad.
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Regulations review sounds bad for education
Education standards in schools could plummet if the government waters down design standards, an acoustics expert has warned
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NewsHaworth Tompkins' RCA Dyson Building tops out
James Dyson has attended the topping out of The Royal College of Art’s (RCA) new “art factory’ in Battersea.
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NewsMecanoo academic building in Amsterdam starts on site
A new academic building at the Amsterdam University College, designed by Dutch practice Mecanoo, has started on site.The new Liberal Arts & Science building will be located in the Science Park, the international science and research centre in the Watergraafsmeer area, and is scheduled to be completed in 2012.The 6,000sq ...
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NewsHigh Court rules that axing BSF was unlawful
Michael Gove’s decision to stop funding later-stage schools was “an abuse of power”
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NewsFree school plans face overspend
The government’s flagship free school policy appears to be facing a multi-million-pound funding gap.
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NewsHeneghan Peng submits Greenwich University plans
Heneghan Peng Architects has submitted its £76 million plans for the University of Greenwich’s new library and school of architecture and construction in the London World Heritage Site.