Bradford's primary schools are to be congratulated on their altruism and wisdom in forgoing next year's instalment of their additional funding so that secondary schools can enjoy a greater share.

In an ideal world there would be enough money available for all schools to be given a decent boost to their funds out of the £11 million extra allocated over three years by the Council - money diverted from other areas of its activities to try to ease the crisis in education in the district.

As it is, the money spent so far has more or less brought primary-education funding up to the required national standard. Secondary schooling, though, continues to lag behind and needs a major shove to bring it up to speed.

There seems little point in the primary schools being adequately staffed and equipped to bring on their pupils if they then have to pass them on to secondary schools which are badly placed to match their standards.

So rather than spread the money thinly across all the schools, it makes a lot of sense for the primaries, which greatly outnumber the secondaries, to allow the latter to take all £3 million available for next year and share it between the 25 of them.

The £120,000 each that this generous gesture will give the secondary schools should allow them to do something worthwhile to raise their standards.

It is a splendid example of those entrusted with meeting the educational needs of all the children of Bradford working together to give them the best possible chance.