Education funding by state in the economic crisis

The quality of current education provision is under attack in many countries throughout the world.

The effects of the economic crisis and of government policies determined by political ideologies, hostile to public provision of education, together with the increasing interest in, and pursuit of, the privatization of potentially profitable education services by free enterprise interests, have placed the public provision for education under threat.

They have also resulted in cutbacks in state support for education services and in salaries and terms and conditions of employment for those working in the education sector.

As a result the existing quality of education is now being undermined in many countries, where the actual public provision for education for all was at acceptable or at least sustainable levels.

EI’s Education in Crisis website contains research and other source material to assist with the development of arguments to support increased expenditure on education and to provide reasoned arguments against cut-backs in such expenditure. It is also provide a forum for blogging and for opinion pieces designed to assist with advocacy for quality education and against the curtailment of public expenditure on education.