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Category Archives: Follow The Money
Why America’s Education Isn’t Worth the Money (INFOGRAPHIC)
TweetThe United States of America spends more money on education than any other nation in the world. Yet one out of four high school students still don’t graduate and 7,000 high schoolers drop out every day. In fact, the U.S. … Continue reading
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The price of a University drop-out 4: Time for some numbers.
TweetIn the last post, we worked out the cost weight of a non-completion when it comes to public-funding, and the different variable factors that can send this cost sky-rocketing. But, it’s key to look at the effect on different institutions, … Continue reading
The price of a University drop-out 3: Exactly how much is each student worth?
TweetIn the last post, we looked into how HEFCE derive predicted non-completion figures year on year so that when we unwrap the data we know what we’re looking at. But, in order to figure out the wider effect on Universities, … Continue reading
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Tagged funding, hefce, heses, higher education, university, university funding
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Links: Public Accounts Committee on how funding is allocated
TweetFrom the BBC: “Under the system of formula-based grants, funding given to schools with similar needs could vary by up to 40%, the Public Accounts Committee said.
The price of a University drop-out 2: how do you work out the numbers?
TweetIn part 1, we tried to sift through the rulings and regulations and explain exactly how the HEFCE fund higher education institutions, and what criteria must be met. Next, before finally digging into the data in detail and filtering out … Continue reading
The price of a University drop-out 1: higher education funding in context.
TweetOne of the first big data-driven investigations we wanted to put on this site was focused on HEFCE and the way in which higher education is funded. HEFCE fund 130 higher education institutions in England and 122 further education colleges in … Continue reading
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Follow The Money: Where to find data on education spending
TweetIf you’re interested in following spending in a particular area of education a good place to start is OpenSpending.org. The site, which looks at public spending, has a section devoted to education. This is further split by sector: Secondary and … Continue reading