Cameron wants to ringfence subsidies for state school employees, er, I mean funds for helping "Hardworking Children" from "Up and Down the Country".

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Obviously, this means that we can forget actually having any ships, planes or soldiers to defend the country. And Welfare and local government will face even steeper cuts.

But that's ok, because Gusset will get to keep his lovely pension.

Not such a cund after all?

...we must expand...get more pupils...so that the knowledge will spread...

Yeah right... I'm sure that school budgets are staying the same (a real terms cut) but no one has factored in the fact that the school roll is set to rise dramatically due to a baby boom a few years back.
Good to see whilst budgets are frozen or slashed that Gideon's spin doctor has an 11percent pay rise.

Indeed, on the BBC local news last night there was someone saying that Croydon needs a new school every year to keep up with demand for places.

It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses.

And I knew your response was coming after I saw nick's post

Inflation is an actual thing mate.

Sweet.

A "real" DanH v "nominal" Stuk showdown. Not had one of those in ages.

Edited by Johnny Eagles (04 Feb 2015 3.43pm)

...we must expand...get more pupils...so that the knowledge will spread...

My understanding was that the pupil premium (ie the amount the school receives for each child) was staying the same. Therefore as schools were going to have to take more students on that their incomes will increase, and in fact they would be able to make use of economies of scale more - in the long run at least?

What concerns me more is the early-years and post-16 education (the latter of which has been hammered in recent times) aren't included in this. Which presumably means that will be subjected to cuts...