Publisher's Synopsis
The average amount spent on each pupil in a maintained secondary school in England is currently more than 40% higher than that spent on the average primary school pupil. Concern over the comparative funding of primary and secondary schools is not a recent phenomenon and the Education Committee set out to establish: how the disparity between the two phases arose; how large it actually is; the effects it has on the quality of education; the areas where it shows most acutely; and whether there is a prima facie case for changing the funding ratio.
