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This year's LSC Client Forum Conference sponsored by Balfour Beatty brought together both clients and design professionals in the FE sector to understand and embrace current strategic issues.
 
Chaired by Andy Wilson, the new chair of the Forum, speakers included Bill Rammell MP, Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education, who presented the keynote address to the conference.
 
The conference examined three main themes;
the changing agenda regarding the vocational education of 14-19 year olds; innovative practice including 'e-learning', and the implications of the Leitch Report, commissioned in 2006 to look into the UK's skill requirement to 2020.
 
Keynote speakers

• Bill Rammell MP Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further & Higher Education
  
  Bill Rammell
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• Who is ahead on 14-19 skills agenda?
  Elaine Bowker, LSC, Director of Area for Greater Manchester
  
  Who is ahead on 14-19 skills agenda?
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• Case-Study of Whole Vision Master Planning
  Sarah Robinson, Principal, Darlington College
   
  
• Fitting the 'e' into design
  Ros Smith, Consultant, JISC
  (Joint Information Systems Committee)
   
  
• Learning Space Design and Integration of ICT
  John Bryan, Bond Bryan partnership
  Clive Hill, Vice-Principal, Matthew Boulton College

FE Awards 2006 - Feedback
How successful was discourse between architect and building client?

• Winner - MANCAT, Peter Tavernor
  Architect: John Walker, Walker Simpson Architects
   
  
• Runner-up - Stephenson College, Dr David Rathe
  Architect: Tom Allen, Pick Everard

 
Workshops

• Sustainability - 'From here to Sustainability' Report
  
  From here to Sustainability, part 1
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  From here to Sustainability, part 2
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  From here to Sustainability, part 3
  File size: 2690kB
  
  Martin Mayfield, ARUP
   
  
• Cultural Change ie Hot-desking
  Dr David Rathe, Stephenson College
   
  
• Grace Kenny, Consultant
  
  Space Planning
  File size: 66kB
   
  
• Greham Raynham, Nightingale Associates 
  
  LSC Design Guidance
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• Alistair Grindlay, LSC
  
  Capital Handbook lanuch
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The Conference proved to be a lively and successful event with a record attendance of college principals and building industry professionals.
 
With the government's commitment to an investment of £750 million annually on capital projects by 2011, the RIBA Learning & Skills Client Forum looks forward to new exciting opportunities in meeting the aspirations of clients in the sector.
 
RIBA/LSC FE Awards 2007
The Call for Entries for these awards will take place in June with deadline for submissions early September 2007. Further information will be available soon on the Client Forum Awards page.