Re:British F-35B crash possibly caused by 'rain cover' left ...
by jessriedel on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @10:20AM
(#29330784)
> To put that in perspective: the pre-primary and primary education budget for the entire country, in 2016, was 800 million pounds.
That doesn't sound right. This page says the UK spent 31 billion on pre-primary and primary education in 2020
https://www.statista.com/statistics/298910/united-kingdom-uk...
(If that has a paywall, try googling for the info, which is how I was able to view the page.)
Please help me understand the discrepancy or edit your comment.
Re:British F-35B crash possibly caused by 'rain cover' left ...
by tcskeptic on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @02:57PM
(#29334379)
Its not right -- there are about 4.6M primary school publicly funded students in the UK.
Source : https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
The UK did not spend 173 pounds per student for a year of education -- the 30B cost leads to per student spending of about $6500, which is starting to approach a reasonable figure.
That's over a quarter billion pounds.
To put that in perspective: the pre-primary and primary education budget for the entire country, in 2016, was 800 million pounds.
Do you think MPs will hand-wring about this plane being flushed down the drain as much as they do about fiscal prudence in early education expenses?
I wonder if UK teachers spend their personal funds on school supplies like teachers in the US do.