Schools
Building Schools for the Future

What is BSF?

Building Schools for the Future (BSF) represents a new approach to capital investment. It is bringing together significant investment (£45billion) in buildings and in ICT over the coming years to support the Government's educational reform agenda. The aim is to rebuild or renew every secondary school in England over a 10-15 year period to create world-class, 21 st century school environments which will inspire learning for decades to come and provide exceptional assets for the whole of the community.

ICT in BSF

ICT is to play a key role in transforming education as part of the BSF programme. At circa 10% of the overall programme funding ICT services in secondary schools are set to receive a £4.5billion investment. BSF ICT services typically include Schools LAN infrastructure including roaming Wireless, IP Telephony, Security and Authentication, Learning Platform, content and VLE and mobile learning devices. Key issues are: Integration with Buildings design

  • Managed Service provision providing anywhere, anytime learning access for whole educational estate
  • Use of and integration with Legacy ICT
  • Phased service delivery
  • Supply chain and stakeholder management
  • Supporting the educational vision and governments education reform agenda
  • Delivering Educational outcomes
  • Demonstrating best value and continually improving the ICT service quality and efficiency

How can Synetrix Help?

Synetrix are recognised for designing and delivering innovative and path-finding solutions to education and the public sector. Together Synetrix provides services to over 6,000 schools in the UK ranging from network services, e-mail and hosting through to fully managed and integrated Learning Platforms. Synetrix provides tailored help desk services (1 st , 2 nd & 3 rd Line) to Regional Broadband Consortia, Local Authorities and directly to schools. I2Q specialise in educational software development and implementation, Identity Management & SSO, content delivery and enterprise integration solutions. I2Q also engage heavily with both the DfES and Becta in innovative R&D activities which eventually produce tangible benefits to school communities.