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From BSF to PSBP: Building a good future for schools?

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We have moved from the £50 billion BSF programme to the austerity ‘kit’ designs of the Priority Schools Building Programme. Bob Harrison was among the speakers at a recent debate on the future of our school buildings.

July 2010 will live in the memory of all those in education – headteachers, teachers, pupils, parents and local authorities – who were involved in the exciting task of building a new generation of schools fit to prepare children for life in the third millennium and a digital age.

Weeks after the General Election, new secretary of state Michael Gove announced he was calling a halt to what he described as the “wasteful and bureaucratic” Building Schools for the Future (BSF) scheme.

Instead, he set up an independent review of school capital spending under the chairmanship of David Cameron’s old Eton school pal Sebastian James, CEO of Dixons.

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