CELE Exchange, Centre for Effective Learning Environments
Centre for Effective Learning Environments
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CELE Exchange, formerly PEB Exchange, is the journal of the OECD Centre for Effective Learning Environments (CELE). It addresses issues related to providing a quality educational infrastructure in a cost-effective way. Innovative and environmentally sustainable design, asset management, school safety, and campus development are some of the themes covered.
CELE Exchange informs its readers – educators, policy makers, architects, managers and others concerned with schools and universities – of international events, recent publications and research, member countries' experiences and OECD activities promoting the efficient planning and management of educational facilities.
Also available in: French
- ISSN: 20727925 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/20727925
Have all the Costs of Closing a School Been Considered?
Centre for Effective Learning Environments
Many schools around the world are struggling in the face of reduced funding and fluctuating
enrolments. Often, the solution to this unhappy equation is quite simply to shut down facilities. But
when all the costs of closing a school are considered – financial, material and human – implementing
this policy calls for caution.
Keywords: shuttering, educational performance, utilisation rates, operating costs, school closures
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