This booklet is concerned with planning physical facilities in education. In an increasing number of countries, primary school buildings are built and/or maintained by local authorities with or without voluntary community participation: certain norms of quality, security and light have nevertheless to be taken into consideration. How is this going to be ascertained? Secondary schools, technical schools and universities, on the other hand, continue to be built by Ministries of Education often with the help of donor agencies. Many of these buildings are very costly and are meant to last for a long time. How can the cost be reduced without endangering the quality? How can the fact be taken into account that in the next ten to twenty years the number of pupils attending, the content and the organization of education may have to change significantly? These are some of the very important issues that this booklet is trying to address. The objective of this booklet is to present in a concise fashion what educational planners working with physical facilities planners need to know, as well as map out how current trends may affect the future of educational facilities planning.
