COST OF EDUCATION IN GREAT BRITAIN

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 228, 21 June 1920, Page 5

COST OF EDUCATION IN GREAT BRITAIN

,456,000,000 IN 1920-21. Education estimates for 1920-21 show that the aggregate expenditure in the United Kingdom, exclusive of grants to universities and'colleges, will amount approximately to or upwards of .£15,000,000 niore than the total spent last year. The principal heads to the increase in each' case are as under:— Estimate, Increase. JH <£ Board of Education 15,755,567 12,983,091 Scottish Education 6,877,220 2,200,000 Irish Education .... 3,358,371 185,735

For universities and colleges the figure is the fame as last yefip, namely, .£945,'700. A total of is allocated for soientiftc investigation, an increase of ,£81,442, and ,£518,298 is taken for scientific and industrial research, or ■£246,845 more than the sum voted last year, The latter increase is accounted for mainly by the raisins of the gwnts i'or investigation and research from ■£93,570 to .£293,028. Most of the national museums and art pnllerics have been giveji larger grants, that; for the British jiuseum being augmented by 4274,519 to a total of .£294,233. Public -works and buildings are estimated to cost in the current year ,£12,173,487, an increase of no less than ■£3,356,104, and the estimates for foreign and colonial services, totalling $3,678,778, are up by Miscelr laneous services, aggregating .£4,628,574, include a grant of ,£1,000,000 to the Wejsh Church Commission to meet sums payable in computation of existing interests Jn ecclesiastical offices; 431,000,000 for the Development Fund, and ,£560,000 lor emergency services, including .£48,500 for the expenses of the food and general transport organisations.