School officials said work will begin immediately to create 44, 000 square feet of new research and academic facilities in existing buildings by 2016.

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When Education Secretary Michael Gove announced in May last year that 261 schools would be rebuilt or refurbished through his new Priority School Building Programme, he said work would "begin immediately", with the first schools opening in 2014.

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