Many 16-year-olds in England seek alternatives to traditional formal higher education, thus requiring colleges to offer alternative means of attracting this group to continue their education in an educational atmosphere appropriate to their needs. This publication examines the problem of providing for non-advanced further education (NAFE) in the…

A handbook, created for both designers and users of food service facilities in schools, provides reference information and guidance for making sure schools can provide quality food service. The handbook's first six chapters include explanations on how to start a school food service design project; required space, including kitchen work flow and…

This bulletin responds to frequent requests for practical information relating to equipment and supplies for teaching science in small high schools. Laboratories for science courses have been for several decades necessary parts of every high school teaching the sciences. This bulletin is a brief survey of the necessary equipment to teach the…

Conference papers presented by leading architects, engineers, and educators concerning the latest developments in air structures, particularly as related to education. BRI-EFL national technical conference. (Columbia, Maryland, May 22-24, 1973.) Discussions center on educational opportunities, economics, technological developments, and the…

Describes the new bookstore at Kent State University offering 9 checkouts, information and special display areas, buyback center and lockers for students' convenience. Layout plans of the bookstore are included. (PG)

Author feels that our understanding of educational space has not developed simultaneously with new concepts of the learning process. We must begin to think of using space in terms of user needs rather than in terms of curriculum divisions. (Editor)

From its inception to the present, Roosevelt University in Chicago has wrestled with problems that have to be solved by renovation. (Editor)

Committed to the idea that environment is important to learning, two former teachers now design and build interiors for learning centers. (Author)

Building between and over existing buildings gives the University of Winnipeg additional usable space without buying additional acreage. (Author)

Economical school construction does not have to result in a barren, stark appearance or in small, box-like learning spaces. (Author)

The benefits and problems of the trimester plan are explored, with conclusion that it is extremely difficult to maintain a summer student body and faculty equal to the spring and fall terms. (IR)

A pilot program for a satellite lunch program (in which food is prepared in a central location and distributed to other schools in the area) is described; the project also involved the conversion of an all-purpose room in an older school to a food service and dining area. (JW)

Play is the focus of this article which considers the plight of children without adequate space for games. (RK)

Looks at what some communities faced with declining enrollment have done to solve the problem of excess school space. (MLF)