A frustrated councillor claims Lib Dem leader Ruth Dombey is “playing politics” by opposing current plans to build schools in her own ward. Catherine Gray, Conservative councillor for Sutton West, says “subjective” concerns over proposed designs for the Rosehill Recreation Ground development should be put to one side given the shortage of secondary schools places […]
Triton Construction has secured a contract worth £2 million to build a new extension at Penistone Grammar School in Barnsley. The overall investment by the local authority was for a two-phase project: Internal re-modelling that was completed in October 2018 to enable an additional 50 year 7 students to be accommodated in the 2018/19 academic […]
How innovative learning environment has a positive impact on the students and teachers. It not only inspires but also helps in building and strengthening human connections Designing schools within a community has an immense impact on how communities grow and are represented. Their design is very important to society and its future. Paul Stevens, senior […]
The plans will be discussed at an executive board meeting among council chiefs next week. Plans are set to be approved to spend more than £10m on the expansion of two schools in Leeds. St. Luke’s C of E Primary School in Beeston, and Horsforth Secondary School are both looking to increase the […]
A new primary school with just 19 pupils on its roll is set to see the number of children going there increase for its second year. Henhurst Ridge Primary School, in Henhurst Ridge, near Tatenhill, only opened in October and has now released a series of photographs showing what the £5 million building looks like […]
Willmott Dixon has been appointed main contractor for the construction of a new medical research centre at the University of Warwick. The Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building (IBRB) on the University of Warwick’s Gibbert Hill campus will bring together up to 300 biomedical researchers from across the School of Life Sciences and Warwick Medical School. […]
A look at the shocking truth of the lack of female workers in construction and what parents, teachers and the industry itself can be doing to change this Exam season has arrived and for many 15-year-old girls, it means feeling the pressure of deciding what career path they want to follow. For many of them […]
Thousands of children and teachers in Medway are at risk of developing cancer from the deadly dust, asbestos. That was the stark warning delivered at a conference at Chatham Historic Dockyard where a leading campaigner said schools should be “named and shamed” if they failed to reveal if their buildings contained the lethal substance. The […]
A retired school teacher has revealed herself as the creator of a series of whimsical blackboard artworks uncovered by builders during renovations to a school in Melbourne’s inner-north this week. Builders at Northcote Primary School were refurbishing the school’s hall earlier this week when they removed large corkboards that had been installed in front of […]
Parents and local people have praised plans for a new education centre at a Norfolk school, funded by an £18.75m donation from Sir James Dyson. Gresham’s School in Holt welcomed the public to give feedback on proposals for the new purpose-built Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths (STEAM) teaching and learning facilities. The event on […]