Sentences with phrase «previous school building programme»
The construction costs of a newly - built free school are 29 % lower than those built under the previous school building programme.»
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Toby Young, director of the New Schools Network which represents free schools, said the report recognised that they were better value than previous school building programmes.
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The free school programme has delivered new schools faster than any other school building programme and, according to the National Audit Office, at significantly less cost to the taxpayer than previous initiatives.
This includes building almost 300 brand new schools, rebuilding and renovating 200 of the most dilapidated schools in the country, and approving funding for more than 400 projects from previous programmes.
«Thousands of schools and colleges which desperately need repairing, and were promised refurbishment under the previous government's Building Schools for the Future programme, will get no help.schools and colleges which desperately need repairing, and were promised refurbishment under the previous government's Building Schools for the Future programme, will get no help.Schools for the Future programme, will get no help.»
The NAO report says that the free school programme had seen «much lower average construction costs than in previous programmes» - on average 45 % lower - by using «existing properties, reduced building specifications and smaller space standards».
The present study sought to build on previous programme evaluations by using a clustered randomized controlled trial to examine the immediate and long term impact of the programme on children in disadvantaged schools.