Long-run comparisons of spending per pupil across different stages of education

Bericht

Education spending is the second-largest area of public service spending in the UK, representing about 4.5% of national income in 2015-16. Government spending on education grew by around 1.7% per year in real terms over the 1980s and 1990s, before increasing sharply over the 2000s by more than 5% per year in real terms. With the exception of 16-18 education spending, most areas of education have been protected from cuts since 2010-11. We have created measures of spending per pupil in England across the four main stages of education stretching back to the early 1990s for the first time. These series of day-to-day spending per pupil allow us to understand how policy changes have affected resources available to students in different stages of education over the long run (...)

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-1-911102-32-8
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IFS Report ; No. R126

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Belfield, Chris ; Crawford, Claire ; Sibieta, Luke
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
• (where): London
• (when): 2017

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1920/re.ifs.2017.0126
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/171989
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET