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Maximising Potential: Floor Space in Further and Higher Education (4)
Part Four: Utilisation Rates In the last MabelPost , we identified that we can use curriculum planning to determine an appropriate number...
Jul 19, 2024
The Longest Note of Caution in History?
MP Gerald Kaufman famously labelled the 1983 Labour General Election Manifesto "The longest suicide note in history." The 39-page booklet...
Jul 5, 2024
Maximising Potential: Floor Space in Further and Higher Education (3)
Part Three: Gross Internal Floor Area and Utilisation Part Two of this series discussed the requirement for efficiency. However, before...
Jun 4, 2024
Maximising Potential: Floor Space in Further and Higher Education (2)
Part Two: Why we must be efficient Part One of this series discussed "modelling the ideal." This means identifying the optimum quantities...
May 6, 2024
Maximising Potential: Floor Space in Further and Higher Education (1)
Part One: Introduction Welcome to our guidance on managing floor space in Further Education Colleges and Universities. Here, we'll share...
Apr 5, 2024
School Wars 2025 - A New Hope?
Anakin Skywalker, Princess Leia, Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, and Obi-Wan Kenobi are the heroes in this remake of Star Wars:...
Mar 15, 2024
Transforming Victoria: A Makeover Story at Blackburn College
In April 2021, the Department for Education (DfE) announced it would collaborate with 16 colleges to address their estate issues. These...
Jan 26, 2024
The stories behind the prizes at Education Estates
Last month, we saw the Education Estates (EE) annual conference in Manchester. Over the last ten years, 'EE' has become a date in many...
Nov 3, 2023
Yes, it's 2023, and your school gets an upgrade... to a Portakabin (so goodbye tent)!
This week, under the heading “Schools closed by concrete crisis forced to teach pupils in marquees”, The Times reminded us that more than...
Oct 6, 2023
Sustainability on the Global Scale
Higher Education must chart a shared path to net zero This week Rebecca Powell and Shreejan Pandey of Monash University, Melbourne,...
Jun 16, 2023
Keegan versus Braverman: Round Two (we told you so)
Our 24 February MabelPost included a piece titled: Keegan versus Braverman; Round One! We reported that Home Secretary Suella Braverman...
Jun 9, 2023
The smart HE campus (and the closed FE campus)
The smart campus... "The pandemic changed the whole concept of the campus. From being a physical hub for staff and students, the campus...
May 12, 2023
AUDE Awards and Government Guidance
Possibly the AUDE awards (but then possibly not). A closer look at the AUDE Awards The Association of Universities Directors of Estates...
Apr 21, 2023
Big Sustainability Contract Announced Plus... Let's Fix Further and Higher Ed!
DfE announces £3.9 million sustainability contract The Department for Education (DfE) is proposing to task a consultant organisation to...
Apr 14, 2023
Floor Plans are Imagined Future Learning Spaces.
Flipping and Blending Teaching. Both financial and environmental sustainability demand that new buildings should last at least 50-60...
Apr 7, 2023
How to innovate (but first, how not to innovate)
Do not log on! A friend of MabelSpace's recounts a story from her early 2000s school days. Her group would wait outside the computer room...
Mar 31, 2023
What Spotify teaches us and the future of concrete
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotified Mind... Technology offers greater potential for a personalised approach to higher education, write...
Mar 24, 2023
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