Publication description

Key takeaways:

• Basic education expenditure accounts for 70% of all education spending.
• Only half of grade 1s make it to grade 12 in the minimum time.
• Only a third of schools have a computer facility, merely a quarter have a library, and just a fifth have a laboratory.
• Pupils in Quintile 1 schools (the poorest) are six times more likely to fail maths than those in Quintile 5 (the most well-off).
• University enrolment increased by 88.7% between 1995 and 2018.
• Rates of completion are lowest for doctoral qualifications, at 13.5%.