Public Service Productivity: Education October 2007 UK Centre for the Measurement of Government Activity Helen Patterson

Outline Context Productivity change Components of productivity change: –quantity –quality adjustment –inputs Future developments

Context Atkinson Review – January 2005 First education productivity article – October 2005 Public consultation Strategy paper “Measuring Quality as part of Public Service Output”, published July 2007 Strategy reflected in article Further developments

Publicly - funded education productivity Output Current price spending Pay and price deflators Input Productivity Quantity Quality Multiplied by Divided by

Publicly-funded education productivity United Kingdom Index 1996 = 100

Publicly-funded education productivity Changes in productivity may reflect: Falling pupil numbers in primary schools; Rising pupil numbers in secondary schools; Introduction of the workload reform package, intended to reduce teacher workload; Increase in support staff numbers; Time lags mean that some changes in resources not yet reflected in quality measure.

Publicly- funded education: quantity measure Quantity measure of education in the National Accounts includes pupil attendance at government maintained schools Secondary Primary Nursery school and classes Special City Technology Colleges and Academies

Publicly- funded education: quantity measure

The quantity measure also includes: Full-time equivalent children in pre-schools in the private, independent sector funded by government; Student numbers in government-funded health professional and initial teacher training courses.

Publicly-funded education: quantity measure

Publicly-funded education quality measure Revised the method used since 1998 for the NA following consultation – technical paper explains; Annual change in GCSE exam results in England and Wales and Standard Grades in Scotland; Revisions endorsed by external quality assurance panel.

Quality-adjusted measures of education output (1996 to 2006)

Publicly funded education: quantity developments Extension to quantity measure: - Further education and later - Higher education - Activities in extended schools

Publicly funded education: quality measure developments Attainment measures - Pre school measure - Primary school measure - Sixth form / further education measures Other educational outcome measures

Productivity: Publicly-funded Education October 2007 UK Centre for the Measurement of Government Activity