Is the end of BSF a bad thing for diplomas?
Posted on | July 6, 2010 |
Jonathan Wells of Guroo Functional Skills writes
The withdrawal of the Building Schools for the Future programme is likely to bring forward a number of content projects in schools strangely in my opinion!
BSF was often the “get in the way” for lots of developments. Because it was so big and took such a lot of time to manage, the scheme would delay lots of other activities, often by years. Once it was rolling, the control of systems passed to the managed services suppliers so buying content to add to the school system was both complex and in some case quite expensive as managed service providers added their margin.
Schools who were relying on BSF to fix things in the next couple of years, will now have to choose to do something now.
So for curriculum developments such as Diplomas and Functional Skills, the dropping of BSF may very well improve things no end, by bring forward the developments to the proper curriculum time (now) rather than forcing a 1 or 2 year delay.
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