An international PEB seminar on “Information and Communications Technology and Educational Property Management” was held in Montreal, Canada, from 31 October to 3 November 2004. The aim of this seminar was to examine how information and communications technology (ICT) can be incorporated...

The South Australian Department of Education, Training and Employment, in association with Flinders University, are collaborating in the design, construction and development of a senior secondary high school which will specialise in the teaching of mathematics and science and focus on innovative...

What follows is an edited transcript of an interview with Glenn Meeks and Prakash Nair by Randall Fielding, U.S. architect and planner, contributing editor to “School Construction News” and the editor of “Design Share”.

On 14 and 15 December 2000 the Milan Centre for Educational Innovation and Experimentation (CISEM), a research institute reporting to the Province of Milan and the Union of Italian Provinces, held an international seminar sponsored by the province and entitled “Intelligent School – Towards...

On 23 April 1999, the Ministry of Education published a new National Strategy for Education, Training and Research in the Information Society for 2000–2004.

In 2007, the author examined existing academic libraries in the United States to determine best practices for the design, implementation and service of learning commons facilities. A primary objective of this study was to discover how to create a higher education learning environment that...

On the occasion of its 30^th anniversary, PEB invited experts to debate the continuing need for educational buildings at a one-day seminar in June 2001 entitled “Temples of Learning or White Elephants? What Future for Educational Buildings?” The OECD Centre for Educational Research and...

The Innovative Pilot High School is part of the <i>Futuroscope</i> complex near Poitiers in the Department of Vienne, eastern France. Designed and financed by the Department, the <i>Futuroscope</i> is the only complex in Europe based on creating a synergy between the activities of leisure, work, technology,...

“Clicks, Bricks and Spondulicks” is the title of a seminar organised by PEB to examine the relationship between the built learning environment and information and communications technology (ICT), as well as cost implications. The meeting sought to determine whether educational buildings and...

Prakash Nair of the United States proposes the list below for evaluating how a school measures up to the most important requirements of the 21^st century. It addresses architects, administrators, head teachers, pupils and others responsible for or interested in the design of a new school or the...