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'The Education Secretary, Michael Gove, has approved a plan to spend £45m on a free school, making it almost certainly the most expensive in the country even though it has just 500 students, The Independent has learnt.

The cost of setting up the Harris Westminster Sixth Form for high-achieving students is six times the average cost of establishing a free school and equates to around £90,000 per pupil.'

'Senior officials have privately questioned the value for money of the school which aims to send half of its pupils to Oxford or Cambridge and will prioritise children who are on subsidised school meals or who come from deprived areas, provided they first pass its selection test The school said that of the 167 children offered places for its opening in September 61 per cent met those criteria'

How can he justify this overspend? 6 new schools could be built across the country for the cost of this one in Westminster.
And is this 'testing' just a return of the 11+?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/ed...e-9222364.html