Education & healthcare Comment 鈥� Page 7
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CommentThe first of many BSF legal challenges?
While councils may be minded to claim back wasted costs, private sector players are just focused on not making a bad situation worse
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CommentSacred cow burgers
Whatever you think of the coalition, it鈥檚 pretty clear it needs help. Luckily construction is in a great position to provide it, but it needs to slaughter a few horned beasties first
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Spending cuts: Education was just the start...
After the shock of the education spending massacre, the cutbacks will probably provoke despair rather than anger
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CommentLib Dems pick a row over education
Passions run high at the Lib Dem conference in Liverpool as they debate free schools and the 鈥檔ew鈥� academies
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CommentFreedom fighter: Toby Young interview
Author Toby Young is one of the first parents to try to found a free school - partly, it seems, in an effort to alienate as many architects as possible. Emily Wright asked him why
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CommentWhy I'm convinced by free schools: Free-range children
Now the dead hand of central government has been prised from our throats, we can build schools in a way that is excitingly new - and strangely old-fashioned
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CommentInternational schools market: If you build it, they will buy it
If you want to carry on building schools for the future, develop a cheaper product that you can sell to poorer countries that are desperate for decent classrooms
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CommentBSF exclusivity agreements: More punishment to come
Companies whose schemes escaped the 精东影视 Schools for the Future cull should not bank on their exclusivity arrangements continuing unscathed
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Simon Lucas: How construction can win work on free schools
EC Harris鈥� head of schools will be speaking at Remodelling Education Spaces taking place on 13-14 September in Manchester
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CommentBSF collapse: Acrimony, angst and anger
The collapse of 精东影视 Schools for the Future has left a lot of bad feeling, but in some ways the programme deserved to die - and we now have the chance to do it better
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Mukund Patel: How free schools will work
Why BSF had to end and the new opportunities for construction in the next round of school delivery
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Schools out for tender
It鈥檚 a new order for those involved in building schools after the coalition鈥檚 savage cutbacks. But the changes should bring opportunities for smaller contractors
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Schools are too expensive ...
The number of people involved and the massive fees that are paid, no wonder the cost of the schools is off the scale
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CommentThe legal fall-out from scrapping BSF
Claims could soon start from companies left out of pocket by the government shredding of BSF
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CommentCan school bid costs be recovered?
Procurement processes are usually set up to give the procuring body no duty to pay bid costs if schemes don鈥檛 go ahead. But there may be particular circumstances on certain contracts that could justify bidders recovering their bid costs
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CommentTy Goddard: Improving our education infrastructure
Money may be tighter than a camel in a sandstorm, but we still have to improve our education infrastructure somehow. Ty Goddard gives a few pointers as to what we might do
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精东影视 schools in the future
精东影视 schools in the future Speculation about what is going to happen after the election is unhelpful (14 May, page 3).
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CommentWhat鈥檚 going on?
The coalition has stated that it will review spending commitments made since January using its own value for money criteria, and it鈥檚 obvious that the 拢55bn earmarked for schools renewal is not going to survive this process unscathed
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Schools in danger
While there are inevitable criticisms that can be levelled at Labour鈥檚 record, we recognise that architecture has generally done well under Labour