7.3 EDUCATION AND TRAINING
7.3.1 NUMBER AND TYPES OF SCHOOLS OF ARCHITECTURE Region
Country
Total Schools
Schools/m population
Africa
Botswana Ghana South Africa Uganda
1 2 £42.79 9 4
0.44 0.07 0.16 0.10
Asia
Bangladesh Hong Kong Malaysia Pakistan Sri Lanka
30 6 24 33 2
0.18 £236.17 0.82 £236.17 0.76 0.17 0.09
0
0.00
12
0.33
4 1 46
3.42 2.29 0.70
18 3
0.75 0.64
Caribbean Antigua and and America Barbuda Canada Europe Cyprus Malta United Kingdom Pacific Australia New Zealand
While no benchmarks exist regarding the number of schools of architecture per head of population, it will be noted that the average for developed economies such as the Australia, Hong Kong and Australia is around 0.70 schools per million head of population. It is interesting to compare this with figures from other, especially those from countries which are rapidly urbanising as this highlights the urgent need to find alternative means by which to accelerate capacity development. While not captured by the survey responses, it is known that issues also exist regarding the lack of consistency of education standards among certain Commonwealth countries. The CAA helps to support education standards by means of its of its validation process36.
36 http://www.comarchitect.org/schools/
United Kingdom
46 33
Pakistan
30
Bangladesh
24
Malaysia
18
Australia
12
Canada
9
South Africa
6
Hong Kong Uganda
4
Cyprus
4 3
New Zealand Sri Lanka
2
Ghana
2
Botswana 1 Malta 1 Antigua and Barbuda
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
Figure 23 Number of architecture schools
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