Government Recurrent Expenditure on Education Per Student
Ministry of Education statistics on government recurrent expenditure per student across pre-tertiary, ITE, polytechnic, and university tracks. Extensive footnotes in the official description clarify exclusions such as independent schools and reclassifications from FY2012 and revised FY2018. Analysts benchmarking fiscal effort on education use the annual series from 1986 through 2021. The collection supports cross-sector comparisons of per-pupil or per-student funding without detailed budget papers. It is a key MOE open-data reference for education spending intensity in Singapore.
Official description
1) Preliminary figures. 2) Figures exclude Independent Schools. 3) Refers to full-time Nitec / Higher Nitec courses offered by the Institute of Technical Education (ITE). Publicly-funded full-time diploma courses offered by ITE are included under “Publicly-funded full-time diploma courses" from FY2012 onwards. From revised FY2018, it also includes funding to National Institute of Early Childhood Development (NIEC) offering publicly-funded full-time Higher Nitec courses. 4) Refers to publicly-funded full-time diploma courses offered by Singapore Polytechnic, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Temasek Polytechnic, Nanyang Polytechnic and Republic Polytechnic. Since FY2012, it includes publicly-funded full-time diploma courses offered by ITE, LASALLE of the Arts (LASALLE) and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA). From revised FY2018, it also includes funding to NIEC offering publicly-funded full-time diploma courses. 5) Refers to publicly-funded full-time degree courses offered by National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Management University, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore University of Technology and Design, LASALLE, NAFA and SIM University (renamed as Singapore University of Social Sciences wef 2016) from FY2014.
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- Ministry of Education
- Update frequency
- annual
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