Must try harder

摘要

The last time a new government was formed, back in 2010, the school building sector was handed an abrupt halt to its work rather than a promising fresh start. The axing of more than 700 Building Schools for the Future (BSF) schemes, and the review of around 100 academy projects, left a sector mired in uncertainty and disarray. Project teams were stood down and thousands of jobs put at risk. The two-year hiatus before BSF's scaled-back replacement, the Priority School Building Programme (PSBP), was introduced, left teachers working in many of the schools that had been lined up for replacement battling a legacy of crumbling buildings that only worsened with time.