<i>Technological, economic and social changes are putting growing pressures on teaching methods and programmes and pointing to new trends in tertiary education. Is existing infrastructure flexible enough to meet the changing demands? What new forms of facilities governance and funding are proving...</i>

Technological, economic and social changes are putting growing pressures on teaching methods and programmes and pointing to new trends in tertiary education. Is existing infrastructure flexible enough to meet the changing demands? What new forms of facilities governance and funding are proving...

Les changements techniques, économiques et sociaux exercent sur les programmes et les méthodes d’apprentissage des pressions de plus en plus vives qui font émerger des tendances nouvelles dans l’enseignement tertiaire. Les infrastructures actuelles sont-elles assez souples pour répondre...

Une sélection d’idées et études de cas présentées lors de la conférence intitulée « Planifier, concevoir et gérer les établissements d’enseignement supérieur » qui a eu lieu à San José, en Californie (États-Unis) est exposée ci-dessous : Les mégatendances et les mythes qui...

Developed below is a selection of the ideas and case studies presented at the conference on “Planning, Designing and Managing Higher Education Institutions”, in San José, California (United States): Megatrends and myths which influence facilities management practices. The technology-enabled...

For some time now in Quebec (Canada), the Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) has been promoting public/private partnerships (PPP) as a solution to the need to rehabilitate the public building stock. The TBS describes this as the best value-for-money solution for liquidating the maintenance and...

Depuis quelque temps au Québec (Canada), une proposition est mise en avant par le Secrétariat du Conseil du trésor (SCT) du gouvernement pour solutionner le besoin de rénovation de parcs immobiliers publics : les partenariats d'affaire public-privé (PAPP). Selon le SCT, cette solution...

It’s elementary: students benefit from pre-primary education. The OECD’s PISA 2009 results show that in practically all OECD countries 15-year-old students who had attended some pre-primary school outperformed students who had not. In fact, the difference between students who had attended...