Expenditure and Budget Trends in Education Presentation to the portfolio Committee on Education on the National Norms and Standards for School Funding 3 September 2002 Cape Town

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Expenditure and Budget Trends in
EducationPresentation to the portfolio
Committee on Education on the National Norms and
Standards for School Funding3 September
2002Cape Town
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• 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

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Real Growth

• Increase in real growth from 1999 to 2001
• Decrease in real growth from 2001 to 2004

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Diminishing Portion of National Resources

• Decline in proportion of resources flowing to
  education of more than 10 percentage points in
  six years

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• 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

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Domination of Public Ordinary School Expenditure
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• 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

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• Provinces are moving towards the 8515 personnel
  to non-personnel split as envisaged in the
  National Norms and Standards for School Funding

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Provincial Disparities With Regard to the 8515
Split
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2001 non-personnel budgeting and expenditure
trends (Public ordinary schools)
600
500
400
Million rands
300
200
100
0
FS
KN
NW
NC
LP
WC
WC
Non-personnel
Budget resource targeting
Expenditure resource targeting
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Section 21 Status Across all Quintiles

• Percentage of section 21 schools to total schools
  was 13

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