Enhancing the Competitiveness of Universities through Educational Facilities

18-20 June 2012: Enhancing the Competitiveness of Universities through Educational Facilities, Seoul, Korea.
This conference - organised by OECD/CELE and the Educational Facilities Research & Management Center (EDUMAC) Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI) - will be the third in the series of conferences on the topic of “Higher Education Spaces and Places: for Learning, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange”. These conferences have addressed the changing role of today’s higher education facilities, which must accommodate a range of activities – providing knowledge transfer through education, skills development, and cultural and community development - while coping with continuous societal and pedagogical changes as well as evolving information technology opportunities and demands.
The conference, organised on the basis of four themes, will explore measures to enhance the competitiveness of universities through educational facilities: Quality Assurance; Green Campuses; University Facilities and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs); and Facility Management System (FMS) of University Facilities.
Contact: alastair.blyth@oecd.org.

The OECD Centre for Effective Learning Environments (CELE) works to identify and analyse ways in which higher education facilities can be planned and managed to support the diverse activities of higher education. Higher education institutions have a distinctly different role from primary or secondary schools. They are centres for research and provide knowledge transfer through education, skills development, and cultural and community development. Higher education facilities must accommodate this range of activities while coping with continuous societal and pedagogical changes, as well as evolving information technology opportunities and demands. For CELE/PEB Exchange articles on this topic, see www.oecd.org/edu/facilities/resources.
Forthcoming: third in the series of conferences on the topic of “Higher Education Spaces and Places: for Learning, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange”: Korea, 18-20 June 2012.

Report on Higher Education for Sustainable Development.

6-8 December 2009, International Conference on Higher Education Spaces and Places: for Learning, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange, Riga, Latvia, co-organised by OECD/CELE with the University of Latvia: conference website, programme and materials.
21-23 May 2008, International Conference on Higher Education: Spaces and Places for Learning, Innovation and Knowledge Transfer, Helsinki University of Technology, Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland.
Presentations made at the international PEB seminar "Higher Education Facilities: Issues and Trends" in Zacatecas, Mexico, 29–30 May 2006.
Presentations made at the international PEB seminar "The Changing Infrastructure of Tertiary Education" held in Quebec, Canada, in October 1999. This seminar was organised by PEB, the Ministère de l'Éducation du Québec and the Association of Institutional Property Managers, with the participation of the OECD Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE).
For more information, contact Alastair Blyth: alastair.blyth@oecd.org.