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Today, 29th November 2011, chancellor George Osborne announced in his Autumn Statement: An extra £1.2bn will be made available for UK schools - split between £600m to local authorities to address school placement shortages and a further £600m to help fund 100 new free schools
This builds on funding announcements made earlier this year:
£2bn Priority Schools Building Programme for secondary schools in England and Wales
£800m for City Academies
£500m Basic Need maintenance funding
Furthermore when you factor in the ongoing BSF legacy work (only 160 of 700 confirmed BSF schools have been built), it's easy to see why the UK’s leading schools builders; BAM, Skanksa, Capita Symonds, Carillion, and Graham Construction have already confirmed their presence at the Building Future Education (BFE) event. Can you afford not to be there?
BFE (formally BSEC) is now in its 7th year and takes place at the Business Design Centre in London 9-10 May 2012 and is the UK’s only focussed event for the finance, procurement, design, construction and furnishing of education buildings.
The event will feature over 120 suppliers from architects, consultants, contractors and product suppliers showcasing their products and services to over 3,000 exhibition visitors and conference delegates from local authorities, academies, sponsors, schools, colleges, investors, consortiums and construction and design firms.
We will be attending the Educatec Educatrice Exhibition in Versailles, Paris in Pavilion 7/3 on Thursday 24th November 2011 If you are going it would be great to meet up please email me Tony Mercer me or call me on my cell phone 00 44 7795 635 882 I hope we can meet
Schools in middle-class areas in the UK could be in line for a “significant” budget boost under the biggest shake-up of education funding in 20 years, research suggests.
Please call Tony Mercer (0044 (0) 779 563 5882) if you have any difficulty finding supplies of EA015 Active Speakers as some suppliers are short of stock right now or contact Tony by email
We hope to see you at the BETT show - Olympia London between 11th to 14th January 2012. The BETT organisers say "at times when technology has a vital role to play in modern teaching and learning, a visit to BETT can help you make sense of the latest education technology and resources available".
Edis Audio Visual products are available from many sources, the range is diverse and different credit lines and stock levels can be found
If you have difficulties buying from your normal supplier, please contact us there are often several options and many different ways to buy Edis products now - including cross-border sourcing !
CDEC Ltd - AV Awards 2011 Finalist uses Edis AV products for Litherland High School
A 27.5 million (US$41 million) next-generation school which has just been completed at Litherland in Sefton, Liverpool UK was a finalist project in the AV Awards 2011 last week.
The hi-tech solar powered building boasts colour-coded rooms featuring the latest computers along with dance and recording studios.
The school is the first in Sefton, Liverpool to be completed under the Building Schools for The Future programme.
It features outside classrooms, solar panels and a wind turbine with separate hairdressing and beauty salons equipped to professional standards and interactive classrooms with projectors and sound systems.
School bells are be replaced by classical music which change on a fortnightly basis.
The colour coding ranges from green for student support areas to blue for calm classroom areas, to red or yellow for music and dance.
Headteacher Jim Donnelly said he believed the improvements were "long overdue." He added that: "The building has been carefully and individually designed to enhance learning in the 21st century". 
The central avenue unites the three distinct curriculum areas of the school and features the professionally-designed hairdressing and beauty salons; "it is called the Avenue of Stars to reflect our strong links with Hong Kong."
The school's old building was the first school to be opened by Lancashire County Council after the Second World War which will now be demolished to make way for a new "village green" for the use of the school.
The school building is 10,900 m2 Sheppard Robson, the arcitect, is working with Kier Education on a One School Pathfinder to provide a bespoke tailored design for a school providing interactive classrooms to enhance learning.
The new Litherland High School embodies the vision of the staff and students into an innovative interactive learning environment, a radical departure from the traditional institutional school style.
Interactive classrooms include Edis EA35 In-wall amplifiers with microphone inputs, Fast-install cable kits either side of short throw Epson projectors, Digital signage features Edis World Beater LCD Tilt wall mounts with all Audio Visual equipment supplied and installed by CDEC Ltd who are Finalists in the AV Awards 2011.
As a vendor to Midwich - Edis AV takes great pleasure in congratulating Midwich on winning the accolade of Distributor of the Year at the AV Awards 2011 ceremony at the Hilton Hotel in London last Friday.