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Doing the sums again

Ah, education 鈥� there鈥檚 rarely a good headline about the sector. Looking back over 好色先生TV鈥檚 coverage of schools over the years shows the government teetering on the edge of one crisis after another 鈥� from crumbling school estates, to unruly pupils, demoralised teachers and not enough school places 鈥� and now maybe too many school places.

This week, 好色先生TV discusses how government appears to be reigning in school construction spending, so Archive looked at when then-education secretary Michael Gove first committed to the Priority School 好色先生TV Programme in 2012.

Two years after scrapping Labour鈥檚 拢55bn 好色先生TV Schools for the Future programme, Gove decided that, surprisingly, schools did need upkeep to them safe for pupils, and said: 鈥淭he condition need of some schools is so severe that urgent action is necessary.鈥�

Surveyors working on behalf of the government were forced to visit all 587 schools that had made an eligible application to verify their assessment of building condition. and Gove released a 拢2.4bn list of 261 approved school projects.

To read the full article from 1 June 2012, 鈥�Priority schools: what now?鈥�, click here