OECD report on education spending

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I've just been having a read of the most recent OECD report on Education. I'll try and do a thread on some of the other indicators later but here's some of the info on education spending


Education accounts for 13% of total public spending, on average across OECD countries, ranging from less than 10% in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Italy and Japan, to more than 20% in Mexico and New Zealand.

Total public expenditure on education as a percentage of total public expenditure (1995, 2005, 2010).
Ireland is 4th lowest. 15 below average. The average is 13%, we spend 9.7%. We also had 2nd largest drop in percentage since the last OECD report Ireland (-4.2 percentage points), only Iceland (who went bankrupt) had a larger drop.
"In Ireland, the 27% decrease in public expenditure on education as a percentage of total public expenditure for all services between 2008 and 2010 is largely attributable to large-scale capital transfers to Irish banks in 2010, which had an enormous impact on government net lending figures."

In OECD and other G20 countries with available data, most current expenditure goes to compensating education staff (teachers and others).

Distribution of current expenditure by educational institutions for primary, secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education (2010) compensation of staff versus other expenditure.
We are 6 above average here, however 78.21 versus 80.56% shows we are not far above it.

Salary cost of teachers (in USD) per student, by level of education (2011)
3 countries above average

I feel it is worth noting this particular sentence: Between 2005 and 2011, among countries with available data for both years, teachers’ salaries increased, on average, by more than 14% at the primary level and by nearly 11% at lower secondary level, while estimated class size decreased, on average, by 18% at the primary level and by 6% at the lower secondary level.
However in Ireland we have gone the other direction, salaries have decreased and class sizes have massively increased.

Salary Cost of teachers per student in Primary Education 2 above average.
Salary Cost of teachers per student lower secondary 3 below average.

Change in the salary cost of teachers per student, teachers’ salaries and estimated class size in primary and lower secondary education (2005, 2011)
4th highest change/3rd highest change. 5 above average/9 above average (comparing primary and lower secondary)

For example, in Australia, Canada, Ireland and the United States, the salary cost of teachers per student at the upper secondary level is the result of balancing two opposing effects: above-average teaching time reduces the salary cost of teachers per student relative to the OECD average, and relatively small class size and high teachers’ salaries increase the salary cost of teachers per student relative to the OECD average (IE we have very high class sizes but compensating salaries are higher than average too)


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There are some things above average and some below average. There does not seem to be a basis for the media/public perception of the "best salaries", even where we are above average it isn't by far.

Edit: All of the data regarding class sizes, teacher ratios etc seems to be missing from the report. If I was a conspiracy theorist I would wonder whether it was with held because it would show a horrible change from the last one....
Anyone know of a reason for this? The tables in the report simply have the data marked with an "m" for missing

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Musicmental85 wrote: »

"In Ireland, the 27% decrease in public expenditure on education as a percentage of total public expenditure for all services between 2008 and 2010 is largely attributable to large-scale capital transfers to Irish banks in 2010."

Thats the bit I would have highlighted .Id shed no tear if those responsible were put up against a wall and shot .God knows how many have died in this country as a result of their actions -not to mention the countless forced to emigrate .