Shock 人物／姿／数字s show 83% 増加する in school spending brings just 1% 上げる in 生産性

Last updated at 18:15 04 September 2007


The 大規模な 増加するs in school spending under 労働 have 配達するd only small 増加するs in value for money, 公式の／役人 人物／姿／数字s have showed.

大臣s say 記録，記録的な／記録する exam results are the 製品 of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's 決定／判定勝ち（する） to prioritise "education, education, education" and 増加する 投資 by 83 per cent from £27 billion in 1996 to £49.4 billion last year.

But the Office for 国家の 統計（学） 警告するd today that the 生産性 of 明言する／公表する schools had 増加するd by an 普通の／平均（する） of only one per cent over the １０年間.

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The ONS 明らかにする／漏らすd that 明言する／公表する schools were 現実に more 生産力のある during 1996-99, a period when the spending squeeze 課すd by the 保守的なs as the country 現れるd from 後退，不況 was 持続するd after the 1997 選挙 by 労働 to 回復する public 財政／金融s to health.

明言する／公表する schools became いっそう少なく 生産力のある after 1999 and this remained the 事例／患者 throughout Mr Brown's その後の spending spree on public services.

School 生産性 last year ended only わずかに above the level seen in 1996, the ONS said.

Joe Grice, (n)役員／(a)執行力のある director of social and public services at the ONS, said: "Large 増加するs in education spending, on the methodology 現在／一般に used, shows there has been a proportionately わずかに larger 増加する in 生産（高） 配達するd by that spending."

The ONS 強調する／ストレスd that these 生産（高）s - or exam results in the form of GCSE 得点する／非難する／２０s in England, むちの跡s and Northern Ireland and 基準 exams in Scotland - had 改善するd.

But because the 政府 has 投資するd billions 減ずるing teachers' workloads and 雇うing more support staff, 生産性 登録（する）d a 拒絶する／低下する between 1999 and last year.

It was a 事柄 for "解釈／通訳" whether or not that meant 労働's 投資 programme should be みなすd a success, Mr Grice said.

Schools 大臣 Jim Knight said: "What this 報告（する）／憶測 makes （疑いを）晴らす is 生産性 in education 増加するd between 1996 and 2006.

"However, the 落ちる since 2000 is 予定 to a combination of 推論する／理由s such as 落ちるing pupil numbers and the 増加するd 基金ing for education - such as for more support staff in schools."

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