BCSE in the press
Headteacher's innovative approach wins him award
www.newsguardian.co.uk, 21st July 2009
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Forest Hill School Scoops winning awards
www.lewisham.gov.uk, 10th July 2009
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College's award for design and construction
thisiscornwall.co.uk, 24th June 2009
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Exeter school wins green award
thisisexeter.co.uk, 25th June 2009
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Gorton school wins design award
manchestereveningnews.co.uk, 25th June 2009
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Hare named best school architect
Building magazine, 26th June 2009
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Newark school given national award
thisisnottingham.co.uk, 25th June 2009
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Hazelwood School wins prestigious BCSE Award
www.schottisharchitecture.com, 25th June 2009
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Wind turbine school shortlisted for awards
www.deadirect.co.uk, April 2009
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Recession threatens buildings cash
Richard Vaughan, TES, 2nd January 2009
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Credit Crunch Warning for Schools
BBC News online, 7th January 2009
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Primary Schools in major Rebuild
BBC News online, 12th November 2008
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Teachers have designs on new buildings
David Marley, TES on 26 September 2008
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Teachers join architects to demand smart PFI
Helen Pow, Building Design, 26 September 2008
Architects and teachers joined forces at this week's Labour Party Conference to demand that the government's £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme allows for better interaction between the two professions in a bid to boost design
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Letters, The Guardian, September 23 2008
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Techers demand a greater voice in design of schools
Caroline Davies, The Observer, 21 September 2008
The £45bn schools building programme is failing because the people who really know what is needed - the staff and the pupils - are not being consulted until too late in the process, say teachers' groups.
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Birmingham BSF decision delayed again
Stuart Macdonald, Building, 19 September 2008
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Shoddy school designs slated
David Marley, TES, 25 July 2008
Architecture experts say too much emphasis on teamwork works to the detriment of building quality. To read the full article click here.
MPs fear schools bidding is unfair
Building Magazine, 18th July 2008
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Architects blamed for unsustainable schools
Maguerite Lazell, Building Design, 18th July 2008
CABE chief attacks profession's lack of skills for design review failures. To read the full article click here.
School designs 'seriously flawed', says watchdog
Tim Ross, Education Correspondent, Evening Standard, 16 July 2008
Gordon Brown's multi-billion pound plan to rebuild every secondary school in England suffered a blow today after a design watchdog warned some of the new buildings were seriously flawed.
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Our schools of the future
Ian Wishart, Leicester Mercury, 24 June 2008
A head teacher says his new school building is to architecture what Beethoven's ninth is to music. Will it make any difference to how much our children learn?
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School furniture - who cares?
educationbusinessuk.com, 22 June 2008
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Making an entrance
Hannah Frankel, Times Educational Supplement, 2 May 2008
Receptions should appeal to all five senses, draw people in and combine business with pleasure
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The biggest school project ever undertaken
Janine Davies, Computing, 17th April 2008
Computing looks at what Building Schools for the Future hopes to achieve.
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Staff are being 'patronised and put through hoops'
Louise Tickle, Guardian, 18 March 2008
Campaigner says millions are being wasted on new school buildings that fail to consider children's services. Click here to read this article
Dr Caroline Whalley, Construction News, 28th February 2008
The Building Schools for the Future review needs to think much more radically says Dr Cazroline Whalley.
BCSE launches school construction awards
Contract Journal, 3 October 2007
A new awards scheme to recognise outstanding examples of well-designed and constructed British schools has been launched by the British Council for School Environments (BCSE).
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Strategy for design on a better future
Times Educational Supplement, 28 September 2007
After a shaky start, the Government's £40bn school renewal project is finally creating new buildings, writes David Marley.
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MPs warn of new schools time bomb
Times Educational Supplement, 10 August 2007
Councils could be left paying huge debts for school buildings that lie empty or are unsuitable, MPs have warned.
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Changing Rooms
TES Magazine, 3 August 2007
Out went the dingy, cramped spaces. In came a cerise breakfast bar and furniture in the shape of fruit.
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The Third Teachers
Progress Online, July 2007
The results from the Teachers' Poll, run co-jointly between BCSE and the Teachers Support Network, reveals that the design and layout of a learning environment is a key element to effective education.
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Feelin' hot
TES Magazine, 29 June 2007
Pupils are restless, sweating and have the attention span of gnats. With another record-breaking summer forecast, Hannah Frankel reports on how global warming in the classroom is making you do more than gently glow.
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Design Drawbacks
Times Educational Supplement, 22 June 2007
Almost a third of teachers say the bad design of their schools prevents them from teaching effectively.
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Because you are worth it
Times Educational Supplement, 6 April 2007
People who build large secondary schools for up to 2,000 pupils should be put in jail, according to Keir Bloomer, the outgoing chief executive of Clackmannan-shire Council.
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New Schools 'not fit for future'
BBC, 29 March 2007
Reports on the manifesto produced by BCSE and BESA which states most schools pre-date the computer age making them obsolete, and calls for better built learning environments designed with input from teachers and pupils.
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The Evening Standard reports that, according the report produced by BCSE and BESA, Gordon Brown's £45bn plan to produce better schools is at risk of producing unsuitable classrooms.
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Designed for learning
Times Educational Supplement, 16 March 2007
Biddy Pridmore reports on the difference that a well designed, well built school can make.
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Expanded schools remit for CABE causes concern
Building Design, 2nd February 2007
The extension of CABE's remit gains a muted response from the design profession.
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Barnet Council decides to go it alone and self-finance eleven primary schools.
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Tim Byles, Chief Executive of Partnership for Schools, admits plans for the Government's school building scheme were over-ambitious.
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The Shape of Schools to come?
BBC, 19th January 2007
This article focuses on complications facing new schools for the future and the need for pupils to be at the core of the design process.
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Government answers BSF critics with green schools
Building Magazine, 51th January 2007
Three schools are set to become models of sustainability in answer to critics who claim that the Government's school building scheme is not green.
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Purpose-built?
Times Education Supplement, 12th January 2007
This letter from Ty Goddard was written in response to an article about Building Schools for the Future on 15 December 2006. It delivers a message to be functional, not cynical, about the scheme.
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Fit for a purpose
Times Educational Supplement, 25th November 2006
An article by Ty Goddard highlighting the importance of involving communities in the school design process and designing schools with, rather than for, people.
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Flagship schools - On shaky foundations
The Independent, 21st Septemebr 2006
An article on the failings in building new schools so far.
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Buildings shape good schools
The Times, 11th July 2006
The Times interview Ty Goddard, Director of BCSE, about his passion for building inspirational learning environments.
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