Monday, May 14, 2007

Ministers 'wasted' £20m on city academy consultants

By Richard Garner, Education Editor
Published: 10 May 2007

The Government has been accused of wasting more than £20m on hiring consultants to evaluate city academies.

Teachers' leaders argued that the money - when coupled with the £28m spent taking on non-teaching project managers to plan the programme - could have been used to build two new schools. Alternatively, it could have been spent on paying the wages of 1,300 teachers for a year. continue...

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