The Test: For a critique of the problems associated with PFI schools in the past, look no further than Michael Gove himself. The education secretary once described the Building Schools for the Future programme - which involved a heavy PFI element - as "characterised by massive overspends, tragic delays, botched construction projects and needless bureaucracy" He said last week that his new PFI-based schools programme would be policed to avoid the cost and time overruns associated with PFI schemes in the past. The question is, how?
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