Attached is a summary of a report prepared by the UK Partnership for Schools. It identifies a potential causal link between the Building Schools for the Future Programme and educational attainment: exam results in schools that benefited from investment under the programme appear to have improved by more than the national average. The paper admits that this is only a tentative finding and that more research to follow attainment over a longer period is required. Interesting all the same?!
Only problem now is that the UK Partnership for Schools and the Building Schools for the Future Programme have both been scrapped as UK public expenditure is squeezed. Nothing wrong with that if there are other more pressing priorities, but one wonders why this report on the potential benefits of the school building programme was suppressed in the process. The only reason we now have it is through a Freedom of Information request made by Building magazine.
http://www.building.co.uk/news/sectors/education/secret-government-report-bsf-schools-improved-learning/5039212.article
