COST OF EDUCATION
Statistics concerning public education in England and Wales for 1911-12 show that-the grant to local education authorities for elementary education known as tho “aid grant," when added to the net produce of a id rate, makes a total of lls 5Jd per scholar, calculated on tho nuiriber in average attendant. It is a convenient method of obtaining an approximation to the total of tho grants paid to all the authorities. Thus, taking the figures given separately for _ England and Wales in the two tables given, the following results aro obtained: Average attendance, 5,386,609 at lls 5Jd per scholar 3.080,46. Less, three-fourths of .£810,510 (net produced of Id rate) ... (i0.,883 The difference—viz., £3,472,103 was the total amount of the grants.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8361, 22 February 1913, Page 10
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122COST OF EDUCATION New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8361, 22 February 1913, Page 10
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