Education & healthcare News – Page 70
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NewsTories slam BSF for overspending and inefficiency
Too much spent on consultants and too few schools improved, claim Conservatives
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NewsThree shortlisted for £355m Coventry BSF
Sir Robert McAlpine, Bam and Laing O'Rourke in the running to deliver 20-school new-build and refurbishment programme
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NewsSouthampton BSF gets government go-ahead
Plan to rebuild or revamp 11 schools has received approval
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NewsFunding rules changed to boost academies programme
Backers no longer need up-front funds of £2m but only skills to run a school
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NewsColleges forced back to basics for LSC cash
Colleges forced into huge cutbacks on project sustainability, scope and design to win LSC funding
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NewsEric Parry wins planning for £4.5m music facility at Wells Cathedral School
Mendip council approves plan for new music building and sports pavilion
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NewsFMB calls for more rural affordable homes
Federation calls for radical overhaul of planning system in response to news that one rural primary school is closing every month
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NewsCostain seals deal on £230m Bradford schools scheme
Consortium reaches financial close on scheme to deliver eight schools in second phase of city's BSF programme
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NewsLSC gives 12 colleges go-ahead
Skills body has granted final approval to schemes that were revised after funding debacle
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NewsBSF funding opened up to beleaguered sixth form colleges
Decision will be lifeline for the institutions that were forced to put development plans on ice after Learning and Skills Council blew budget by more than 150%
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NewsProject of the month: Birmingham's £2.4bn BSF programme
The achievement of financial close on the Catalyst Lend Lease project shows banks still have an appetite for large-scale BSF
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NewsCatalyst Lend Lease reaches financial close on Birmingham BSF
Bovis Lend Lease is construction partner on 15-year transformation of the city's secondary, primary and special schools
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NewsCarillion picked for £192m Rochdale BSF
Programme includes delivery of 13 new or refurbished schools over four years
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NewsCarillion agrees funding for £500m Durham BSF deal
Financial close reached on contract that will see 40 new schools built in ten years
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NewsTories to take axe to Partnerships for Schools
Senior Conservatives back report by right-wing think tank that calls for delivery body to be replaced
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NewsStoke reveals BSF contract winners
Balfour Beatty and Thomas Vale/Wates JV named as design and build partners for the city's £250m schools programme
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NewsNo summer holiday for the BSF programme
Rather than shutting down for the summer holidays BSF schools will open their doors to the local community
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NewsTories to take axe to Partnerships for Schools
Senior Conservatives back report by right-wing think tank that calls for delivery body to be replaced
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NewsCarillion to start building Cornwallis Academy in September
Classrooms and facilities in building, designed by Jestico + Whiles, will be arranged around a large central space
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News£200m Portsmouth BSF to be reprocured after lack of ICT bidders
Council will now ask contractors and ICT firms to bid seperately