1. Expenditure and Budget Trends in Education Presentation to the portfolio Committee on Education on the National Norms and Standards for School Funding 3 September Cape Town

2. Education accounts for about 20,5 % of the total state budget
College/school education accounts for about 85% of the total budget of the education system

3. Real Growth Increase in real growth from 1999 to 2001
Comment: This graph captures jointly the decline in education expenditure over total state expenditure (from 22.5% to 20.1%) and education expenditure over GDP (from 6.0% to 5.3%). Because state expenditure as a percentage of GDP is being maintained more or less constant, the two curves in the graph follow each other quite closely.
Increase in real growth from 1999 to 2001
Decrease in real growth from 2001 to 2004

4. Diminishing Portion of National Resources
Comment: This graph captures jointly the decline in education expenditure over total state expenditure (from 22.5% to 20.1%) and education expenditure over GDP (from 6.0% to 5.3%). Because state expenditure as a percentage of GDP is being maintained more or less constant, the two curves in the graph follow each other quite closely.
Decline in proportion of resources flowing to education of more than 10 percentage points in six years

5. The public ordinary schools programme accounted for the highest proportion of funding (72,13%) to education and 83,6% of college/school education in 2001/02

6. Domination of Public Ordinary School Expenditure
Comment: This graph captures jointly the decline in education expenditure over total state expenditure (from 22.5% to 20.1%) and education expenditure over GDP (from 6.0% to 5.3%). Because state expenditure as a percentage of GDP is being maintained more or less constant, the two curves in the graph follow each other quite closely.

7. KwaZulu-Natal accounts for the biggest share of education expenditure, while the Northern Cape accounts for the smallest share
Limpopo Province has the greatest increase in nominal terms
Limpopo,Eastern Cape, Free State, Mpumalanga and North West grew above average. Northern Cape, Western Cape and Gauteng grew below average

9. Provinces are moving towards the 85:15 personnel to non-personnel split as envisaged in the National Norms and Standards for School Funding

10. Provincial Disparities With Regard to the 85:15 Split
Comment: This graph captures jointly the decline in education expenditure over total state expenditure (from 22.5% to 20.1%) and education expenditure over GDP (from 6.0% to 5.3%). Because state expenditure as a percentage of GDP is being maintained more or less constant, the two curves in the graph follow each other quite closely.

12. 2001 non-personnel budgeting and expenditure trends (Public ordinary schools)
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Budget resource targeting
Expenditure resource targeting

13. Section 21 Status Across all Quintiles
Comment: This graph captures jointly the decline in education expenditure over total state expenditure (from 22.5% to 20.1%) and education expenditure over GDP (from 6.0% to 5.3%). Because state expenditure as a percentage of GDP is being maintained more or less constant, the two curves in the graph follow each other quite closely.
Percentage of section 21 schools to total schools was 13%

14. Percentage of section 21 schools to total number of schools is 20%
7 % increase in section 21 schools from 2001 to 2002