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NewsBond Bryan LSC college goes on site
Work has begun on one of just a dozen colleges which managed to get funding under the Learning & Skills Council’s botched rebuilding programme.
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AWW scheme another victim of LSC fiasco
A scheme by AWW to build a new college on a former pork pie factory has officially been cancelled after the college failed to find alternative funding following the Learning and Skills Council funding debacle.
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Manchester college sweats on LSC bailout
A college designed by Walker Simpson is the only scheme of 13 named in June, to miss out on the government bailout of the Learning & Skills Council college rebuilding programme.
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Framework firms lash out at LSC 'nightmare'
Nearly half of the 13 colleges bailed out following the Learning & Skills Council rebuilding fiasco will be built using architects not on the framework it set up to carry out the work.
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Only 13 colleges to receive cash following Learning & Skills Council fiasco
Just 13 of 180 college projects will be bailed out following the Learning & Skills Council rebuilding debacle, the organisation has announced.
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NewsMore jobs at risk as LSC college cash is delayed
Architects caught up in the Learning & Skills Council college rebuilding debacle have warned that more jobs could go because of fresh delays to the botched initiative
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More delays on LSC college rebuilding programme
Architects hoping for work on the troubled Learning & Skills Council college rebuilding programme now face weeks more of delays to find out if stalled jobs they are working on have been saved from the axe.
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Decisions under way on LSC funds
Consultants employed by the Learning & Skills Council are scrutinising applications for £300 million in emergency funding announced for its college rebuilding programme in last month’s Budget
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NewsLSC fiasco could force Bond Bryan to cut 70 jobs
Sheffield practice Bond Bryan has become the latest casualty of the Learning & Skills Council’s botched college rebuilding programme, by admitting the fiasco could see it axe 70 jobs
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NewsBudget’s college bailout is “derisory”, architects claim
The architectural community has reacted with disappointment at the government’s decision to allocate a further £300 million to the Learning & Skills Council’s struggling Building Colleges for the Future programme, saying it is far too little.
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NewsCollege building crisis was probably avoidable, says report
Funding for 144 stalled college projects should be allocated on a “needs” only basis, a damning independent report into the Building Colleges for the Future programme has concluded.
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AnalysisEducation, education, education...
…was New Labour’s mantra, but with the LSC’s college rebuilding plans in tatters, will the primary school programme fare any better?
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Learning and Skills Council's chief executive quits
Mark Haysom, the chief executive of the Learning and Skills Council, has resigned.
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Atkins warns LSC delay could cost hundreds of jobs
Hundreds of architectural and engineering jobs could be lost unless urgent action tackles the stalled Learning and Skills Council college-building programme, a major design firm has warned.