Prime Minister Julia Gillard says a future Labor government will implement all 14 changes recommended in a new report into the troubled $16.2 billion schools building stimulus program.

The Building the Education Revolution (BER) Taskforce, headed by banker Brad Orgill, has today released its interim report into the program, which has been beset by claims of waste and profiteering.

The report calls for changes to how future projects are administered and tougher rules on what constitutes value for money.

In the past three months the taskforce has visited 110 schools in five states.

The report finds that out of the 254 complaints investigated, about half related to value for money.

Half of the complaints came from public schools in New South Wales and 20 per cent from public schools in Victoria.

The report says that the majority of complaints raise very valid concerns about value for money and the involvement of the school community in decision making.

And it says the complaints reflect shortcomings of the program that could have been avoided.

"In part these issues reflect the focus on speed of implementation of projects and a necessary trade-off of consultation time and design customisation versus the stimulus objectives," it says.

Mr Orgill has made 14 recommendations, six of which are for immediate action.

Among those six, the report says that any projects not yet committed to should be administered under each education authority's pre-BER "business as usual" guidelines.

It also says that the Taskforce is not satisfied with how authorities measured value for money and has called for a forum of education authorities to develop more consistent definitions.

However, the reports also finds that the program is meeting its overall objective.

"Notwithstanding the validity of issues raised in the complaints, our overall observation is that this Australia-wide program is delivering much needed infrastructure to school communities," it said.

"I welcome the scrutiny that this report brings," Ms Gillard told a Melbourne press conference today.

Ms Gillard has used the reports findings to defend the Government's actions during the global financial crisis.

"In any project there is a trade-off between time and cost and quality," she said.

"The judgement was that we were going to support jobs by providing economic stimulus and building the BER was the single biggest part."

"The alternative would have been for this country to go into recession."

But Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says the scheme's problems show Ms Gillard is not qualified to govern.

"If you can't be trusted to manage a $16 billion program properly you certainly can't be trusted to manage the $350 billion-a-year budget of the Commonwealth properly," he said.

"If you can't manage a school or program properly you can't be trusted to manage a $1.1 trillion economy."

The taskforce will hand down its final report in November.

The program came under the spotlight after complaints were made about cost blowouts and inflated quotes.

As education minister, Ms Gillard in April set up the taskforce to investigate all complaints.

In May a report by the auditor-general found federal guidelines hampered state authorities from implementing the program.

Auditor-general Ian McPhee said there were some early signs the program is making progress and most schools will benefit from it.

But Mr McPhee also found federal guidelines caused difficulties for state authorities as they tried to roll out projects.