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McMahon, Walter, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This series addresses the relation of education to knowledge-based growth and broader measures of development beyond growth, central features of the modern world in which education has a central role. This role includes the effects of education on pure economic growth including its effects on the creation, adaptation, and dissemination of new…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Expenditure per Student, Higher Education, Human Capital
Sinnamon, Ian T.; Loo, G. A. van't – 1977
One of a series of documents on design of disaster-resistant buildings, this publication treats construction of rural primary schools to resist destruction by wind and water from cyclones. Also appropriate for other buildings, material is aimed at rural primary schools because they are less likely to be professionally designed or supervised; the…
Descriptors: Air Flow, Building Design, Construction Materials, Design Requirements
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and Oceania. – 1976
Educational facilities analyzed in this bulletin are in the countries of the Republic of Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. The first section reviews the historical reasons for different stages of school building development in the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Building Plans, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Construction Programs