Education Space Consultancy

Providing expert timetable and space management consultancy services within the education sector

How To Improve Your Utilisation Of Teaching Space, Without Damaging The Student Experience

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I often hear that to improve the utilisation of teaching space the student experience will suffer. This simple thought, causes huge headaches for those trying to promote better space efficiency within education, with student experience now top of the agenda for most if not all. However, is this even true?

Well, I have found that it does not need to be and there are in fact many ways to improve your utilisation of space and not effect, or in some cases even improve the student experience at the same time. This article looks at one method of doing this, by actually decreasing the number of activities timetabled into teaching rooms, whilst not effecting the amount or the type of teaching that takes place.

To do this you need to ask the question– Are timetabled activities actually taking place when and where I think they are? [Read more…]

What Are Space Frequency, Occupancy And Utilisation Rates And How Do I Calculate Them?

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To start off the Education Space Consultancy’s space and timetabling blog I am going to begin with some basics – What are space frequency, occupancy and utilisation rates and how do I calculate them? 

Frequency, occupancy and utilisation rates are terms for measuring how well space (as in physical space, such as rooms) is being used. Each, provides you with a different piece of information that helps you to understand how well your space (i.e. a room, a building, or even your institution) is being used and why.

The Space Management Group (SMG) , provides some useful definitions so lets use these to start with – also, I recommend having a look at their website and in particular [Read more…]