Each school pupil in Scotland receives hundreds of pounds more in education funding than those in England, figures for 2005/06 have revealed.
Almost 12% more was spent on primary school pupils north of the border compared with those in England.
At secondary level, the rate of spending was 24% higher in Scotland.
Bizarrely, the BBC seems to think that this news is of no interest in England! It is only reported on the BBC Scotland page -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6959215.stm
Surely it's in the English public's interests to know? But no, reported in Scotland it encourages loyalty to the "Union" - another example of unfair advantage; reported in England it encourages parents to ask why their children are second class citizens.
And the BBC wouldn't want the people of England discovering the truth and wanting a fair deal, would it?
Perhaps the news explains this other BBC Scottish education story -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6765871.stm
UPDATE:
There was a report on the BBC Lunchtime News. It was absolutely amazing propaganda. The piece made out that the stupid English actually choose to fund their education system lower and that Tuition Fees were decided by English MPs, not Westminster MPs representing Scottish constituencies, overturning the will of our elected representatives. The Barnett Formula was not mentioned. "It's up to the English what they spend their money on," said one sniffy and highly superior Scot. um, no. What about Tuition Fees?
There is no national English Parliament, non-representative Scottish and Welsh MPs, some steeped in hatred and one-sided revisionism and daft legends (they are not 'Celts'), vote on our legislation, and we don't benefit from the Barnett Formula - declared unfair to England, the UK's most ethnically diverse country, even proportionally, by its own creator, Lord Joel Barnett, as it provides more money per capita on NATIONAL lines outside of England.
People ACROSS the whole of England, including poor areas from Newcastle to Great Yarmouth, suffer from lower per capita spending. The 'regions' do not exist. They are just something the UK Government uses to pull the wool over our eyes.
Millionaires in Scotland and Wales don't pay for prescriptions, and have far better funding for health and education.
But the Barnett Formula is graded. Scotland gets more than Wales, and benefitted from a previous formula before Barnett's creation in 1978.
The Northern Ireland situation is rather more complex, but as the country was partitioned by a Welsh PM, with avid backing of Protestant Scots MPs, one can see that the situation was not just created by the 'evil English'
The whole report, by education "expert" Andrew Castle, was a downright lie, seeking to cuckold. The BBC is getting worse.
The whole report, by education "expert" Andrew Castle, was a downright lie, seeking to cuckold. The BBC is getting worse.
