How poor classroom acoustics are linked to lower skill levels in students. If you feel you’re struggling to maintain discipline and cooperation, and your students’ motivation and engagement levels are lacking, it may have something to do with the way ...
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Waverley College, a Sydney independent school, has spent $23 million on a new building aimed at helping its students learn a trade and other vocational skills. In this centre is a BOSE speaker system, multimedia screens, retractable lighting bar and ...
More »Collaboration cornerstone of school-in-a-school design: architect
Collaboration was key for Hayball Architects' Lisa Horton’s design for blending together schools. Melbourne’s Dandenong High School is an amalgamation of three existing schools. It has to cater for more than 2100 students. Horton said the successful design was a direct result of a 10-year collaboration ...
More »Can new flooring improve staff and student health?
Tarkett is a French company that manufactures and markets commercial flooring products, with a specific focus on education and healthcare environments. Ralph Jorissen is the managing director of Tarkett’s Australian subsidiary, which is rolling out its new iQ One range. ...
More »Vic, NZ trade ideas for building design, teaching
School building and refurbishment is now a booming industry in New Zealand and Victoria. And one architect said educators from both sides of the Tasman Sea are trading ideas for their pet projects. New Zealand’s last federal Budget allocated NZ$882.5 ($825.7 million) ...
More »Children design own school, based on a treehouse
It’s not every day that kids get to design the school they learn in. But that’s exactly what the students of Bendigo’s Golden Square Primary School did. Now the school resembles a treehouse. When architects K2LD were commissioned to design ...
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