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'Widening gap' between state and private
Posted on 14th November 2007
The gap between private school funding and that available to state schools is set to widen, the Conservatives have warned.
According to the Daily Telegraph, Conservative calculations show that by the academic year 2010-11, funding within the independent sector will have risen to £10,200 per pupil.
However, state funding will be only £6,600 per pupil, the Conservatives report, following yesterday's announcement that funding per school would increase by two per cent a year between 2008 and 2011.
This is despite pledges from Gordon Brown as both chancellor and prime minister to bring state school funding up to private levels.
Recently, Steve Sinnott, the general secretary of the National Union of Teachers said that although Britain has achieved the industrialised-countries' average spent on educating its children, more should be done.
"I look to the fulfilling of the Prime Minister's commitment to match public with private spending on education … State school class sizes must be brought down to private school levels," he urged.
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