4
With additional estimated expenditure of $197.9 million on capital
works (education projects) taken into account, the estimated proportion
of total government expenditure set aside for the education budget in
1981-82 rises to 14.5 per cent. Within the framework of these three
heads of expenditure, the two largest areas of expenditure in recent
years have been grants and subsidies to public-sector schools other than
government schools, particularly in respect of the various codes of aid
(see paragraphs 5.24 - 5.36 below), accounting for approximately 62 per
cent of total expenditure, and on grants to the universities and Polytechnic,
accounting for about 23 per cent (excluding student grants).
5.8
Actual gross expenditure on education under the three heads
since 1974-75 has been as follows:
$ million
1974 -75
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
-76
-77
-78
-79
-80
-81-
Education Department 188.7 200.1
226.4 255.8 282.1
Education Subventions 685.0 721.3
843.2
315.4 452.9
982.4 1161.9 1462.1 1965.3
Universities and
Polytechnic
225.0 310.2
296.4
332.2
414.3 547.5 810.3
Total
(Annual % increase)
1098.7 1231.6 1366.0 1570.4 1858.3 2325.0 3228.5
(13.9) | (12.1) |(10.9) | (15.0) | (18.3)|(25.1) | (38.9)
* Revised estimate (1980-81)