KPMG publishes report on PFI schools

19 May 2009

KPMG has recently published a report which concludes that educational performance in newly rebuilt PFI schools improves faster than in conventional ones. The KPMG report entitled “PFI in school building – does it influence educational outcomes?” follows a first report, published in 2008 and tries to answer the following questions: Do last year’s results prevail? Does PFI influence student achievement? Is student motivation affected? What are the possible policy implications?

The main findings of this 2009 edition are:
- The rate of improvement in educational attainment is 44 percent faster in schools rebuilt using PFI than those rebuilt conventionally. This shows that KPMG’s findings from last year persist.
- Unauthorised absence in schools rebuilt using PFI is reducing, whereas in a comparable set of conventional schools it is increasing. Unauthorised absence seems to be an indication of lack of student motivation, which is often argued to make a major contribution to student performance.

Click here to read a full copy of the report.

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