Total investment in a building programme for primary schools over the next five years will be '9.4 billion. About 8,900 primary schools will be rebuilt or refurbished.
Direct payments to head teachers for schools' priorities will rise every year until 2008, reaching '36,000 for primary schools and '115,000 for secondary schools.
A typical primary school will receive '31,000 in the coming year, while a typical secondary school will receive '98,500 next year, with further rises in subsequent years.
Under a series of measures aimed at ensuring young people were in education or training from the age of three up to 18, 17-year-olds in full-time education or unwaged training are to be given '75 in education maintenance allowances and children's benefits. Those out of work and not in education will be offered "special transitional help" to go back to training.
All young employees are to be offered apprenticeships or college-based training and there will be a five-year '1.5 billion programme to renovate and renew further education colleges.
By next year, for the under fives, there will be 1,000 sure start children's centres, from 2007 free nursery education of 15 hours and during the coming Parliament one million new childcare places.
A three-year programme of spending on IT capital is to be raised by '1.67 billion and a new scheme will be started to let children lease computers for home use at low cost.
The Teach First programme - which offers outstanding graduates incentives to teach in challenging schools - is to be extended to four more cities, including Manchester.
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