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CHAPTER 4 APPROPRIATION OF AND SHARE IN EDUCATIONAL EXPENDITURE
2 Distribution of Public Educational Expenditure
(2) Educational Expenditure by Major Categories of Expenditure


As is shown in the following table, the greater part of the total educational expenditures (including private school expenditures) have been allocated to current expense. About 50% of the total expenditures have been spent on teachers' salaries, while the proportion allotted to capital outlay has been 20-30%. It decreased between 1950 and 1955 and increased between 1955 and 1961. The increase since 1955 is considered to be due to the expansion of buildings and equipment for elementary and secondary schools to meet the increase in enrolments.

Table 63. Trends in Total Educational Expenditure According to Major Categories of Expenditure

Table 64. Trends in the Total Education Expenditures According to Major Categories of Expenditure at Different School Levels

The proportion of elementary school expenditures allotted to capital outlay Continued to be less than 20% after World War 2. Although the percentage Of secondary School expenditures devoted to capital outlay varied from year to year, it has been about 30% since 1960.

At the higher education level the percentages allotted to "other current expense" and capital outlay is relatively high as compared with those at the elementary and secondary levels. This is due to the fact that in institutions of higher education much larger amounts are spent on operation and maintenance of school buildings, equipment and supplies for instruction and research than in elementary and secondary schools.

As indicated in the table on page 144, the rate of increase in teachers' salaries is highest in secondary education followed by higher education, while the rate of increase for "other current expense" is highest in secondary education, followed by higher education. At both the secondary and higher education levels, the rate of increase is lower for "other current expense" than for teachers' salaries.


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