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PEB Exchange now available via OECDdirect

09-Jun-2008

To receive personalised e-mails announcing new OECD publications, statistics updates and free newsletters related to your specific areas of interest, the Organisation offers a free service called OECDdirect. PEB Exchange is now part of this service.

Mexico’s UACJ Designing University City

19-May-2008

Mexico’s Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez (UACJ) is designing a 300-hectare University City which will consolidate its existing campuses into one.

PEB Archives in Mexico

19-May-2008

PEB is pleased to announce that its document archives will be housed in Mexico and made available to everyone. The Architecture for Education Division at CIPAE (International Centre for Prospective and Higher Studies) in Puebla, Mexico, will care for the Programme’s historic set of books, reports, guidelines and architectural reviews related to educational infrastructure.

Disaster Risk Reduction Website

06-May-2008

PreventionWeb (www.preventionweb.net) is a new information service created to increase knowledge on disaster risk reduction. The website provides a common tool for those interested or working in the area of disaster risk reduction to connect, exchange experiences and share information.

Reducing Greenhouse Gases in English HEIs

04-Apr-2008

Higher education institutions (HEIs) in England will benefit from a new fund to provide repayable grants for projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Projects funded under the new scheme will reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, from both existing and new buildings, and enable HEIs to save money in the long term and to benefit from carbon trading. Projects might include better energy management, on-site renewable energy generation, waste management, and sustainable construction and refurbishment.

February issue of "PEB Exchange"

25-Feb-2008

This latest issue features these articles: Modernising Portugal’s Secondary Schools; New Zealand: Modernising Schools in a Decentralised Environment; Changing School Architecture in Zurich; US Academic Libraries: Today’s Learning Commons Model; Implications of Curriculum Reform for School Buildings in Scotland; Evaluating School Facilities in Brazil.

Modernising Portugal’s Secondary Schools

08-Feb-2008

In March 2007, the Portuguese government announced an ambitious plan to modernise secondary schools by improving the quality and usefulness of its teaching and learning facilities, while putting schools back into the centre of the community of which they are an integral part.

PEB Welcomes Alastair Blyth

01-Feb-2008

PEB is pleased to welcome Alastair Blyth who joined us from the University of Westminster in August 2007.

CIPAE’s new Architecture for Education Division

03-Sep-2007

The International Centre of Prospective and Higher Studies (CIPAE) has created a new division: Architecture for Education. Founded in 1976, CIPAE is a private international institution which encourages education for all and lifelong learning in government policy as well as in economic, social and cultural organisations. CIPAE, based in Puebla, Mexico, collaborates directly with governments throughout the world and with UNESCO.

OECD RSS Feeds

03-Sep-2007

The OECD now offers RSS feeds which automatically deliver the Organisation’s latest news directly to your desktop or website. RSS is short for “Really Simple Syndication” and is somewhat like a free subscription service. You can subscribe to our RSS feeds by topic, such as education, sustainable development, economics and growth, employment, migration, or public governance and management, or by OECD department.




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Articles: Monitoring the Quality of School Buildings in Belgium’s Flemish Community; Evaluating Quality in Educational Spaces: OECD/CELE Pilot Project; Sustainability Innovation in United Kingdom Schools.

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