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Following today's Spending Review, which provided an update on public services funding for the current financial year (2020−21), as well as departmental budgets for 2021−22, the Education Policy Institute (EPI) has set out its response to announcements outlined by the Chancellor on education…
By Education Policy Institute
Just over a year ago, Boris Johnson campaigned for the leadership of the Conservative Party on an agenda to ‘get Brexit done’ and to address the ‘opportunity gap’ between different parts of the United Kingdom. [1] The narrative through the…
By Jon Andrews
Wednesday's Budget, the first for the current Chancellor of the Exchequer, should give us further insight into the newly elected government’s priorities over the next five years . Arguably, the government has already signalled its commitment to schools. Last September…
By Education Policy Institute
Summary Expenditure on ‘back-office’ functions (administrative and clerical staff, administrative supplies, and bought in professional services) is the third largest source of expenditure for schools after teachers and education support staff. Reported school expenditure increased by 59 per cent between…
By Jon Andrews
Summary The number of teaching assistants employed by state-funded schools in England has more than trebled since the turn of the century and they now represent a quarter of the school workforce. Teaching assistants are far more prevalent in primary…
By Jon Andrews
Summary Between 2003 and 2017, per pupil spending on teaching staff increased at a much slower rate than spending overall (a real terms increase of 17 per cent versus 42 per cent across all expenditure). In our sample of schools,…
By Jon Andrews
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Summary The recently proposed teacher pay increases will create a pressure on the largest area of school spending – teacher costs account for around half of all spending. The number of teachers at state-funded schools in England has increased by…
By Jon Andrews
While school funding has increased, so have the costs faced by schools, with schools reporting increasing financial pressures. As such, school funding has been an important issue, resonating not just with schools but parents and the electorate more widely. During…
By Jon Andrews, Emily Hunt, and Education Policy Institute
How does overall funding and expenditure relate to school characteristics? Download as a PDF . Summary Our first paper in this series showed that school expenditure increased by 42 per cent between 2002-03 and 2016-17, but funding, and hence expenditure,…
By Jon Andrews
The Education Policy Institute has launched a new series of research papers examining school expenditure, and how it has evolved over the last two decades. The new series of analyses aims to develop a greater understanding of school spending patterns,…
By Jon Andrews
Ahead of the one-year Spending Round, set to be delivered by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Wednesday 4th September, EPI's Jon Andrews analyses the series of education funding commitments announced by the government so far. Summary The Prime Minister’s funding…
By Jon Andrews
On Wednesday 4th September the Chancellor is set to deliver a one-year spending round setting department budgets for 2020-21. Ahead of the Chancellor's announcement next week, today the Prime Minister announced an additional £14 billion of funding in cash terms for…
By Education Policy Institute
