All Education and healthcare articles – Page 37
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Features
Time to go back to school?
When it comes to school building work, the construction industry has been tasked with doing ‘more for less’, but as the economy picks up is it time for a rethink?
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Infographic: Growth in need for school places
Projected UK population growth, following inward migration and rising fertility, will have a huge impact on the need for school places, with an overall increase of 12% in the school-age population expected between 2012 and 2024. But the data shows the impact will vary widely between English regions.
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Comment
School building: Could do better
The EFA is facing a huge task – but it must think about the legacy it will leave for future generations
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Student digs
Despite rising tuition fees, university applications in the UK have risen to an all-time high. How is the industry is coping with the demand for student accommodation?
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Former EFA design chief regrets cuts to school sizes
Mairi Johnson believes baseline designs for schools may result in buildings being too small
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EFA fails to attract any bidders for three priority school batches
Fears grow that contractors are backing away from urgent school building work because of tight margins
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Broadwater Farm Inclusive Campus: Down on the farm
The Broadwater Farm Inclusive Campus accommodates on one site both special educational needs and mainstream schooling and is the culmination of a radical programme of inner-city renewal
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Comment
Education estates: A landscape in flux
The last few years have seen major developments in the way the UK’s educational estates are funded
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Kier wins £40m Scottish education campus
Contractor will deliver Ayrshire primary and secondary school
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Laing O'Rourke lands £200m Dumfries hospital
Contractor will begin construction of 350-bed facility next year
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Unite adds four major schemes to its pipeline
Client commits to student halls projects in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Portsmouth
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Councils plunder development cash to fund school places
Survey finds councils plundering building programme coffers to plug £1bn school funding hole
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Atkins wins planning for £25m Edinburgh campus scheme
Planning approval will see work start next year
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Wates favourite for £55m North London priority schools
Exclusive: Wates is being lined up to build a £55m batch of priority schools in Camden, North London
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Laing O'Rourke lands £100m London uni job
Firm will build innovation hub for Imperial College London
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Skanska wins role on £1bn Cambridge scheme
Contractor to provide infrastructure and logistical services for the first phase of the huge housing-led North West Cambridge project
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Morgan Sindall takes £120m Pf2 schools batch
Exclusive: Morgan Sindall beats rivals to take batch of private finance schools in the North-west
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Manchester University hunts for contractor partners
Winners will be in line for £670m of contracting work over eight years
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Bam wins £38m Hull priority schools
Bam Construction has won a £38m batch of priority schools in Hull and East Riding
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Leeds universities reveal £375m pipeline
University of Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan plans to spend £375m on capital projects over next four years