Program Information
The Building the Education Revolution is offering schools across Victoria and Australia the opportunity to move into 21st century learning with new and rejuvenated learning spaces.
The funding package has gone into schools via three programs:
- Primary Schools for the 21st Century (P21) - $14.1 billion for Australian primary schools, K-12 schools and special schools to build new iconic facilities such as libraries, multipurpose halls or classrooms, or to upgrade existing facilities
- Science and Language Centres for the 21st Century Secondary Schools (SLC) - more than $821 million for the construction of new science laboratories or language learning centres
- National School Pride (NSP) - $1.3 billion for all schools in Australia for minor capital works and maintenance projects.
For information about the centralised management of the BER projects, see Program Management.
For information on getting involved in the BER program, see Industry Participation.
Latest news
The Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committee is conducting an inquiry into the BER. See here for a copy of the submission (PDF - 538Kb).
Tony Canavan, Coordinator-General of the Nation Building and Jobs Plan, recently visited projects around Victoria to see the effects the stimulus is having on local communities. See here for a video of the Coordinator-General's visit (MOV - 9.4Mb).
For recent stories written about Victoria's projects on the Commonwealth Government's Building the Education Revolution (BER) website as well as media releases pertaining to the BER, see News about the BER.
