Building Schools for the Future was the name given to the British government's investment programme in secondary school buildings in England in the 2000s. Around half of the work was procured under th
Gilbrook College, Middlesbrough, constructed under the BSF programme
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Michael Andrew Gove, Baron Gove is a British politician and journalist. A member of the House of Lords since 2025, he previously held senior Cabinet positions in Conservative governments between 2010
Building Schools for the Future
…England over three years. On 5 July 2010, in the early stages of the coalition government's austerity programme, the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, announced that following a review, the programme was to be scrapped, calling it "bureaucratic and wasteful." Projects which had not achieved the status…
Official portrait, 2025
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where Gove studied (pictured in 2017)
Official portrait, 2012
Official portrait, 2015