For example, in 2017 the New South Wales government committed to building open-plan classrooms, each for up to 120 students, at more than 100 new schools. The Victorian government is building ...

The Grattan Institute is urging the Victorian government to stop building open-plan classrooms and return to more traditional classroom design, until it has more evidence the voguish spaces ...

Open-plan classrooms were promoted as a way to encourage collaboration and flexibility in schools. But after 14 years, the government is going back to basics with school design.

Age readers react to the debate about open-plan classrooms and school zonings.

A parliamentary inquiry has recommended that open-plan classrooms should be avoided, and that no public school should have more than 50 per cent of its classrooms as demountables.