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Taxpayers Alliance thinks that schools spend too much on teachers

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HPFA · 14/06/2018 21:55

The TA (funded by God knows who) thinks that schools are wasting money on teachers rather than educational resources:

The biggest item of expenditure of schools in England was teaching staff costs, with schools spending an average of £783,326 last year. This is more than 11 times the amount spent on learning resources for children.
This is significant for a number of reasons. It highlights the fact that pay for salary is the biggest item of expenditure for schools in England. It also reveals just how much more is being spent by schools on teaching staff costs than on educational resources for children.

Don't know about you but I always thought that teachers were the "educational resources" in a school.

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TerfTerfTerf · 14/06/2018 23:28

Allegedly one of the most influential pressure groups in the UK!
In September 2010, it was reported that the TaxPayers' Alliance was organising an event sponsored by several American lobbyists and groups involved in the Tea Party movement, including the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, the Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation. The Alliance has also sought advice from the Tea Party leadership

Money comes from rich Tories' donations. Has about as much clue about teaching as the government ministers it supports. The biggest cost in almost every business / company is its workforce! Why would schools be any different? Hmm

Geraniumsunset · 14/06/2018 22:52

Expenditure low on hard resources because teachers in the main make their own.

DumbledoresApprentice · 14/06/2018 22:50

A good teacher is the most expensive and valuable learning resource that schools provide.

superram · 14/06/2018 22:10

We are desperate for teachers. We have overseas trained teachers asking for huge salaries (via agencies that cost tens of thousands) and we have to pay or we have kids in classrooms alone. Improve working conditions and the shortage will fall.

StealthPolarBear · 14/06/2018 22:06

Oh I don't know. Just give them a few worksheets

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 14/06/2018 22:00

Educational resources are pretty useless without teachers. I wonder who is funding them as well.

StealthPolarBear · 14/06/2018 21:59

And hopefully they've realised that money spent on teachers does not = money in teachers' pockets?
Just making sure...

StealthPolarBear · 14/06/2018 21:58

Surely that is as it should be. The vast majority of money should go on staff. I'm sure it's the same on the NHS.
Whatever they'd found it would have been a headline.
Oh hang on that's not the story is it bloody teachers, overpaid, slackers etc etc.

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HPFA · 14/06/2018 21:56

Sorry, should have included link to full report:

d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/taxpayersalliance/pages/9466/attachments/original/1528883418/Schools'_spending.pdf?1528883418

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