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present arrangements under the codes of aid. The basic principle of this

system is that a grant calculated on the basis of the notional subsidy per

place payable to standard-sized primary and secondary schools under the

general codes is paid to the sponsoring bodies concerned: the cost of

providing education at standards beyond those approved for the codes of aid

would then become the schools' responsibility and would normally be recovered

by an increase in fees. Levels of fees would, however, be subject to the

Director of Education's approval. Any general development in this direction

would of course have to be considered against the background of the

provision of nine years' universal, free and compulsory education.

mode of financing of the English schools is more fully described in the

Report of the Committee to Review the Application of the Farity of Subsidy

Principle to the English-speaking Schools (1980).

Subsidies outside the Codes of Aid

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(The

In addition to subsidies paid under the terms of the codes of

aid the government also provides subsidy to the following categories of

school:

(a) junior and secondary English schools operated by the English

Schools Foundation (under arrangements which came into effect

in September 1979);

(b) private independent schools (in respect of bought places);

(c) private non-profit-making schools (also in respect of bought

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places); and

assisted private schools.

The government pays the full fee for the places it buys at the

Form I III level in private independent schools. In Forms IV V pupils

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in bought places pay the standard government tuition fee and the government

supplements this up to the level of fee charged by the school, subject to