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15-May-2008
The New York Times quotes the OECD publication Keeping Schools Safe in Earthquakes, which concludes that “schools ‘routinely’ collapsed in earthquakes around the world because of avoidable design or construction errors, or because existing laws and building codes were not enforced”. A review of OECD countries’ implementation of the Recommendation Concerning Guidelines on Earthquake Safety in Schools, featured in the report and approved by OECD Council in 2005, is under way.
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03-Aug-2007
PEB organised a conference entitled “Sustainable Spaces and Places for Learning, Innovation and Knowledge Transfer” in collaboration with the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. The event was held in May 2008 and identified global and local possibilities to provide quality environments for higher education. Both physical and virtual environments were addressed.
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06-Apr-2007
The Netherlands’ Ministry of Education has announced the winners of its eighth annual School Building Prize, recognising projects in the primary and secondary education sectors. The ministry awards this prize to encourage school boarders to be visionary, creative and professional when building new schools and rebuilding or renovating existing ones. The aim is to provide infrastructure that facilitates the education process as much as possible. The theme of the School Building Prize 2006 was “My school is unique because…”.
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26-Feb-2007
A new study, titled “Growth and Disparity: A Decade of U.S. Public School Construction”, investigates the scale, scope and distribution of school building investment across the United States. While the report illuminates the unprecedented spending and growth on U.S. public school construction over the last decade, it reveals that a tremendous disparity exists in who has benefited from the billions of public dollars invested.
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26-Feb-2007
Düsseldorf, the capital of Nordrhein-Westfalen, is one German city applying the concept of all-day schooling. The facilities needed for an all-day school are described below, as well as the conversion of one of Düsseldorf’s 72 primary schools for this purpose.
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15-Feb-2007
OECD countries have agreed to renew the PEB mandate for a further two years. The Programme assists members to make the most effective use of the resources devoted to educational facilities at all levels and there is a full programme of activities planned for that period. These include work on financing infrastructure, defining and evaluating the quality of educational buildings, data gathering, following up work on school safety, and analysising innovation in educational facility design.
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Evaluating Quality in Educational Facilities
20-Feb-2006
All students have the right to a quality learning environment, however in many countries, the educational process is compromised by poor physical infrastructure. Six international experts share experience in evaluating the quality of educational facilities in the journal of the OECD Programme on Educational Building PEB Exchange (February issue).
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14-Oct-2005
A draft report from PEB's First ad hoc Experts' Meeting on Evaluating Quality in Educational Facilities is available on a new Web page devoted to this issue. The experts established a preliminary framework for assessing quality and evaluated assessment methodologies used in various countries.
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13-May-2005
UPDATE: 20 JUNE 2005 is now the final deadline for receipt by PEB of completed entries for publication in the next international compendium of exemplary educational facilities. Details of the selection process, the submission form and sponsorship information are available via the above link.
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15-Mar-2004
The summary report of the PEB seminar held in Brisbane, Australia, 24-26 March 2003, on investing educational capital in IT and physical is available here.
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Focus
See the new PEB brochure to learn about the Programme's activities and what it offers members.
New PEB Brochure
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