COMMENTING on today's Assembly Government announcement on spending on school and FE college buildings, Shadow Education Minister Paul Davies AM said:

"While welcoming any additional expenditure on school and college buildings, the Assembly Government appears intent on drip feeding these sorts of announcements in order to spin a good news story.

"We should not forget that the backlog in school building repairs is running into hundreds of millions of pounds, while the Assembly Government has been far less ambitious than Scotland or Northern Ireland in accessing all available funds to modernise classrooms.

"Today's announcement will go nowhere near meeting the cost of school building repairs or even developing a more strategic approach to delivering 21st century educational facilities."