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Subventions in 1981-82 for annual grants, capital grants and refunds under

the Codes of Aid for primary schools, for primary special schools, for

secondary schools and for secondary special schools; for approved subsidies

to English Schools Foundation schools; for approved recurrent and capital

assistance to private secondary schools and for subsidies to miscellaneous

educational activities is $2,107 million. This represents an increase of

$458 million on the approved estimate for 1980-81 and of $645 on actual

expenditure for 1979-80, viz:

Annually Recurrent

Special Expenditure

Total, gross

Actual expenditure 1979-80

Approved

estimate

Estimate 1981-82

1980-81

$ million

$ million

$ million

1,391

1,558

1,945

71

91

162

1,462

1,649

2,107

Controlling Officer: Director of Education

Provision included under Heads 40 and 42 provides for the expansion of

education services in accordance with approved policies and, in particular,

for the expansion of secondary education towards the targets set out in the

1974 and 1978 White Papers.

Universities and Polytechnic

5.12

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The estimate of the amount required under Head 190 Universities

and Polytechnic in 1981-82 for recurrent and capital grants to the two

universities and the Polytechnic, for rate refunds, for student grants, for

the salaries and expenses of the secretariat of the University and Polytechnic

Grants Committee (UPGC) and for the expenses of the UPGC itself is $840 million.

This represents an increase of $94 million on the approved estimate for

1980-81 and of $292 million on actual expenditure in 1979-80, viz: