There is a fascinating new report investigating education outcomes as a function of a number of variables. You can find the full report here.
I haven't read the full thing but I have looked at the section on per pupil funding. The report finds that there is no correlation between pupil funding and pupil outcome. The report says:
I haven't read the full thing but I have looked at the section on per pupil funding. The report finds that there is no correlation between pupil funding and pupil outcome. The report says:
As well as:the level of funding, per se, is almost irrelevant as a predictor of performance.
The final conclusion is this:As funding and performance do not appear to be correlated in 2010-11, in our view, this suggests that the funding may not be improving performance as intended.
I know that the contributors to this forum are great supporters of evidenced based policy rather than "ideology". I presume therefore all will now be opposed to the pupil premium and any increases in education spending?extra funding alone does not correlate with better (or worse) performance. There is no guarantee that providing more resources to schools will improve performance. For a given level of per pupil funding, there is no way of predicting accurately what performance will be;