Are the bulge classes enough to solve oversubscribed primary school rolls?
No they aren’t. The problem is of a number of different facets. We hadn’t seen it coming to be honest, because obviously we built the secondary school and that was the thing that seemed to be the main problem. What actually was happening was the conflation of a number of different things. Instead of young marrieds all moving out at a certain time regular as clock work and freeing up the local schools, they all stayed put. Then a second thing happened, one year into the recession which was last year. Instead of keeping their kids in the privates, they all felt very worse off and worried about the future and they all piled into the state system. We were confronted by a tsunami of applications for primary school places that didn’t exist. We’ve now got a scheme where quite a large amount of money is being spent to enlarge some schools and bulge classes are going through the rest. That seems to be working quite well at the moment. So we don’t see any difficulties with the current year’s app
