Govt 'needs to invest in schools' to support economic recovery
Date posted: 23 Jul 2010
In order to support the country's economic recovery, the government should focus on school investment, an expert from NASUWT suggests.
Published by Alison Gamble.
Ministers might stand a better chance of addressing the UK's budget deficit by investing in the country's schools, it is believed.
The NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates feels that the coalition government is wrong to go ahead with its plans to heavily cut back on the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) scheme which was introduced under Labour.
He commented: "Investing in schools and in young people is the only credible solution for economic recovery and tackling the budget deficit."
Mr Keates, who made his remarks after a NASUWT-backed lobby of parliament on the issue, pointed out that a number of schools are worried about the speed at which ministers are announcing proposals for education reform.
Michael Gove, the UK's education secretary, described the BSF programme as being inflexible earlier in the month when he confirmed that it would be ending.
The politician also suggested that the scheme was too complex.
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