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Following on from yesterday’s fascinating fact, I bet you can’t guess today’s subject. Tower Hamlets are the highest spending local authority on schools – allocating £7,150 per pupil, against a national average of £4,690 Here’s the Top 10 funders: £7,350
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Remember last autumn, when I found a “Fact of the Day” for virtually a whole month? It wore me out. So here’s another attempt at providing some interesting facts – but I’m definitely not aiming for one every day! Today’s fact is about school funding:
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For years I’ve eagerly looked forward to the publication of the annual “ICT in UK State Schools” report from BESA (the British Education Suppliers Association), because it provides a valuable insight into what is happening across the majority of schools.
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Yesterday, we had a full day briefing for the UK Education Partners, with an agenda that covered a market situational analysis, information on our campaigns for the Academic Year 2008/9, and a look at product news and demonstration resources. In total,
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There are 16 million students in England, Wales & Scotland Now, that’s a BIG number, and I’ll break it down a bit more, because there’s some detail you need to know about. Schools have 9.5 million students Students, or pupils? Well, officially they’re
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Yet another ICT one… Universities spent £529 million on ICT & telecomms in 2006 This is from analysis of the UCISA survey of a sample of universities. By scaling it up (using the data on number of students), it’s possible to estimate the total number
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A really juicy, ICT related one today According to BESA, English schools spent £552 million on ICT in 2007 The number comes from the BESA ICT in Schools Survey 2007, which is carried out by C3 Research, who run the National Education Research Panel .
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To celebrate the fact that it’s Monday, here’s a BIG number! There are 3,069,000 computers in education (schools, colleges and universities) Gosh, this is getting exciting isn’t it? Okay, so this number surely needs some context. Firstly, let me tell
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There 164,875 staff in universities in England, Wales & Scotland, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency Now, there’s a talking point at parties! “Oh, me, I work for the Higher Education Statistics Agency…” How about a bonus fact? Approximately
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There 3/4 of a million staff in English schools. Of which, 440,000 are teachers, and 176,000 are teaching assistants. Read more fascinating School Workforce statistics from the DCSF School Workforce Survey of January 2008
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I reckon there are 32,606 schools in England, Scotland and Wales. And that’s fallen by about 400 schools over the last two years Do you agree? Have you seen different numbers? I’m not surprised, because get two people together and ask how many schools
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There are 167 Universities in England, Scotland and Wales Actually, they’re not all universities. That’s a soundbite. It’s actually 123 universities, and 44 other HE institutions Take a look at the DIUS Statistics (Table 2.1)
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There are 433 Further Education Colleges in England, Scotland and Wales, including 96 Sixth Forms Surprised? Want to know more? Take a look at the DCSF Statistics
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An average primary school spent £14,000 on ICT last year (From a BESA survey in June 2007)
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An average secondary school spent £62,000 on ICT last year (From a BESA survey in June 2007)
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