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摘要

When education secretary Michael Gove confirmed a new programme of PFI schools last week, many within the industry, and the education sector, will have breathed a heavy sigh of relief. After years of lambasting the cost and delays associated with some PFI-based school building in the past, notably in the early years of the £55bn Building Schools for the Future programme, and seeking to distance himself from the initiative, Gove finally acknowledged what many commentators had been pointing out throughout a year in which the school building programme was on hold. When it comes down to it, if you have only £15.9bn of capital funds to spend over the next four years, much of which is already committed, and you have two-thirds of the secondary estate and thousands of primaries to renew or expand - you'll probably need to rely on some investment from the private sector.