News that the Government is to pump millions of pounds of extra cash into secondary education in Brighton and Hove and across Sussex made me think of my own time at school.

My secondary education happened entirely under the Conservative government and my memories of school are of draughty, temporary classrooms, shared textbooks and of watching the science teacher do experiments because there was not enough equipment for us to do it ourselves. Computer provision was non-existent.

The current investment by Labour in school buildings and equipment is not a quick-fix vote winner but a long-term investment in our country's most important resource and an extension of educational opportunity to every child.

Contrast this to the Tories, who now threaten to effectively privatise or make independent every school, forcing them to compete for scarce resources while millions are slashed from the education budget to fund tax cuts for the well off.

I hope Labour's investment in schools means as much to today's pupils in 20 years as the Tories' failure does to me.

-Warren Morgan, Maresfield Road, Brighton