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By conducting a thorough review of their estate, independent schools can pinpoint where to invest, consolidate activities, and potentially generate income from surplus assets. This holistic approach is key to future-proofing operations while maintaining a high standard of education. Are you prioritizing long-term gains over short-term fixes?

By conducting a thorough review of their estate, independent schools can pinpoint where to invest, consolidate activities, and potentially generate income from surplus assets. This holistic approach is key to future-proofing operations while maintaining a high standard of education. Are you prioritizing long-term gains over short-term fixes?

Why Planning Education Should Embrace Universal Design With billions in federal funding potentially slated for infrastructure, accessibility must be prioritized to achieve justice in the built environment. Properly training planners is the first step. https://lnkd.in/e6tn9GQ

Interesting observations by the always-insightful Geoff Mulgan on how to establish significant and durable institutions of state. This is interesting at a time when we have so many major reforms underway nationally - some of a scale that does beg the question of whether we need something arm’s length that can provide the dedicated resource, play the enduring coordination role and operate beyond the rhythms of political cycles. Such an institution was proposing in the Universities Accord review, and similar ideas emerged in last year’s select parliamentary committee inquiry into employment services. Mulgan also refers to the Australian examples of Jobs and Skills Australia and the NDIA. The trick is designing these institutions so they are enduringly effective, while also avoiding a default to setting up new entities for every new thing.

At The Class Foundation, we believe that the four pillars of student living - Availability, Accessibility, Experience and Collaboration essential to meeting the needs of students, attracting talent and ensuring the quality of their academic journey. The Class is collaborating with and highlighting key voices in the sector to explore each pillar's topics and highlight the necessary work that lies ahead. In this article we'd like to highlight and thank Rob Waterhouse, Transactions Director at GSA - Global Student Accommodation, for exploring the critical challenges facing today’s students, particularly concerning housing accessibility and affordability. With extensive experience in the sector, Waterhouse highlights the multifaceted crisis affecting millions of students across Europe as part of our series of articles. Key takeaways from this article: 💠Supply vs. Demand: High demand from rising student numbers, coupled with land scarcity and rising construction costs, is straining PBSA supply. 💠Impact on Affordability: Cities with an increased PBSA supply saw more stable rental growth (around 2% annually) versus areas with restricted supply, which saw rates climb by 5-6%. 💠Policy & Collaboration Needs: Easing zoning restrictions, encouraging private sector partnerships, and allowing greater flexibility in design could drive supply and affordability. 💠The Investment Opportunity: Meeting demand requires significant investment (€450 billion across Europe), but the benefits will be transformative for students, universities, and the housing market as a whole. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/ech_DtWZ #Affordability #StudentAccommodation #StudentHousing #AffordableHousing #Education #Sustainability #RealEstate https://lnkd.in/ech_DtWZ

This morning, Hubert Loftus, Assistant Secretary General, updated delegates with the Department of Education's current projects and plans for the future:   “We’re all just about providing the best possible education system and support for the children in our schools, the staff that teach in our schools and the communities that they serve. That’s the value of this conference – getting ideas from each other to help do that in the best way possible… We’re currently investing over 6 billion in our schools throughout the country between 2021 and 2025… Since 2020 over 950 school building projects have been completed... We currently have over 350 school building projects in construction and that includes 37 new school buildings and that involves an investment of 1.5 billion. It’s very much a team effort making that happen... Back in April we announced close to 90 projects progressing to tender on construction over the course of 2024 and early 2025 and those 90 projects involve an overall investment of around 800 million. We’ve got so much more to do but we’ve made good inroads in modernising our capacity... We’re targeting our investment as much as we can to the areas of greatest need.” Event Partner: Government of Ireland Sponsor Partners: AJ Products (Ireland) Ltd | Arcadis | CPAC Modular | Curtins | SE Systems| Versatile Department of Education — Ireland #educationbuildingsireland

The complexity of Australian schooling reform means that policy design and delivery processes can sometimes appear as a “black box”, understood by few, except those in the heart of processes. In this new open-access paper, David de Carvalho and I use the theory of “hybrid governance” to examine NAPLAN's design and delivery, shedding light on how and why its governance architecture operates the way it does, and the benefits and risks of it. This article will be especially useful for system leaders seeking to navigate the complexity of Australia’s national policy architecture and how the promise of collaboration across jurisdictions and sectors translates into practical action. Stephen Gniel Jenny Donovan Edmund Misson GAICD Jason Clare MP https://lnkd.in/gSTSmSWx

NELSON MANDELA UNIVERSITY INAUGURAL LECTURE SERIES OF 2024 ............................................................. "While housing is not only about houses, human settlements are much more than housing." ........................................................... Join the Lecture in person or online. For in-person attendance make sure that you RSVP rias@mandela.ac.za on or before 9 October 2024. For South Africa, October is a Human Settlements month. It is thus appropriate that we take a pause, engage on a brief reflection examining the complex issue of human hettlements, and gravitate towards 'the site where the calf has died.' For without telling what human settlements is or is not, we risk providing solutions, to pressing urban challenges, that instead create more or amplify existing problems. Knowing the real problem is one positive step towards finding a sustainable solution. There may not be one solution, as the elephant is no longer one in the room, but many. Please Disturb Us! Institute of Human Settlement Practitioners South Africa (IHSP-SA) The United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) Chartered Institute of Housing Canada (CIH Canada) CIB, International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO) SACPLAN SACPLAN SACAP SACAPSA World Health Organization South African Council for Project & Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP) Engineering Council of South Africa South African Housing and Infrastructure Fund Nelson Mandela University University of Johannesburg Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment and Technology - Nelson Mandela University University of the Witwatersrand University of Fort Hare Mangosuthu University of Technology Durban University of Technology Bowie State University City of Cape Town eThekwini Municipality Morgan State University University of Potsdam Hochschule Wismar University of Sydney Makerere University University of the Free State University of KwaZulu-Natal WSU - Walter Sisulu University University of Zululand University of Mpumalanga

Reflecting on a week of conversations relating to the Education estate, including from the AUDE_news conference. There is an overwhelming appetite for estate and asset optimisation. Many Directors of estates are talking about sourcing accurate condition data, to help inform the estate strategy. This is linked to opportunities to repurpose and rationalise estates. It strikes me that this is a consistent need across all phases of the education estate. Together, let's gather the required estate data, develop the estate strategy (considering condition, decarbonisation and master planning) to optimise the estate for resilience. Kayo Efunshile Mel Manku Dominic Wilson Chris Newton James Murphy Gareth Beal Philip Hitchell

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