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Building the Education Revolution Element 1: Primary Schools for the 21st Century

This element of the Australian Government's Building the Education Revolution initiative is providing funding for new facilities and refurbishments in Queensland primary schools, P-12 and special schools.

Funding

Eligible Projects

Design Solutions

Nomination and submission process

Key timelines

Funding

Funds have been allocated on the basis of the audited February 2009 full-time equivalent (FTE) enrolment data.

Indicative funding caps provided by the Australian Government are as follows:

School size full-time equivalents (FTEs)	Indicative funding cap
0 to 50 FTEs	$250,000
51 to 150 FTEs	$850,000
151 to 300 FTEs	$2 million
301 to 400 FTEs	$2.5 million
401 plus FTEs	$3 million

The indicative funding caps provided by the Australian Government are the maximum allowable funding for each school under the Australian Government 's Building the Education Revolution Guidelines . They are inclusive of all professional costs and contingencies.

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Eligible projects

Under the Primary Schools for the 21^st Century, funding is being provided for (in order of priority):

construction of new libraries
construction of new multipurpose halls
construction of new classrooms, replacement of demountables or other buildings
refurbishment of existing facilities
early learning centres.

Further details are available in the Australian Government 's Building the Education Revolution Guidelines .

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Design solutions for Primary Schools for the 21st Century

To expedite the planning and design phase of the Primary Schools for the 21st Century element of the BER program, a number of design templates have been developed by the Queensland Department of Education and Training. The templates are based on current best practice in our state schools as required by the Australian Government.

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Nomination and submission process for Primary Schools for the 21st Century

The Department identified a number of eligible projects which has informed the first round of submissions to the Australian Government. Information for this first round was based on existing asset information and information received from primary schools in response to other capital works programs.

Eligible primary schools, P-12 and special schools not contacted in the initial round of consultation were required to submit their nomination online from 6 April. Principals received further details of the online nomination process via email on this date.

Site visits have been undertaken with principals and P&C Associations about proposed capital works solutions and to progress proposed solutions.

All project nominations to the Department of Education and Training have now closed.

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Key timelines

Program element	Funding Round		Submissions to Australian Government	Projects complete
Primary Schools for the 21^st Century	Round 1	20% of eligible schools	10 April 2009	20 December 2010
	Round 2	40% of eligible schools	15 May 2009	31 January 2011
	Round 3	40% of eligible schools	10 July 2009	31 March 2011

Further information regarding the Department's process and planning for the Primary Schools for the 21st Century element of Building the Education Revolution will be updated on this webpage as it becomes available. Please revisit this webpage regularly to find out more.

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Contact

Should you require any further information, please contact your Building the Education Revolution regional advisor in the first instance.

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