'IT'S A MARVELLOUS THING TO DO, BUT IT'S A STUPID WAY OF DOING IT'

摘要

John Petrie knows better than most that the government's schoolbuilding programme isn't working. He is assistant headteacher at Tong school in southern Bradford and he's been involved with the pound;45bn Building Schools for the Future initiative since November 2002.Tong's 1,450 pupils were supposed to move into shiny new premises in September, but Bradford's pound;400m deal has yet to reach financial close after nearly a year of contract wrangles with Integrated Bradford, an Amey-led consortium. Now the expected completion date has been put back to September 2008.