Public spending on education
Situation in Germany
In Germany, public expenditure on education includes expenditure by the federal, state and local authorities on services in preschools , schools , universities and other training institutions. Expenditures for research and development at colleges and universities as well as for education-relevant supplier services such as public expenses for food, transport and accommodation of the learners are also included. Public expenditure on education also includes expenditure on subsidizing private purchases of educational goods or services, including grants from the public purse.
In the definition of the budget used by the Federal Statistical Office for education, research and science, in 2009 the public and private sectors in Germany spent 224.8 billion euros on education, research and science.
Public spending on education has attracted more public interest since 2001 through the OECD's Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) , as the study revealed worryingly poor performance of 15-year-old German students in most categories.
At the education summit in Dresden in October 2008 , the federal and state governments also decided to increase state expenditure on education and research to 10 percent of gross domestic product by 2015 as part of a qualification initiative .
In the international definition (OECD), 5.3% of the gross domestic product in Germany in 2009 was used for public and private educational institutions. In terms of economic power, spending in Germany was significantly lower than the OECD average (6.2%). It should be noted that the proportion of young people (under 30-year-olds) who largely attend educational institutions was 39.2% on average in 2009, while the proportion of this age group in Germany was 31.0% % was. Compared to 1995, the share of GDP in Germany rose from 5.1% to 5.3%. In relation to the development of their economic strength, the OECD countries USA , Switzerland and Denmark , for example , increased their expenditure on education disproportionately, while in the states France , Austria and Israel the share of education expenditure in GDP decreased in the comparison period.
On November 29, 2019, the Bundestag passed an amendment to the Basic Law , which would remove the restriction of the federal government's financial assistance competence to co-finance investments in financially weak municipalities (Article 104c GG) and grant the federal government earmarked financial assistance to the federal states for nationally significant investments in the social field Housing construction would allow (new Article 104d GG), provided that a two-thirds majority in the Bundesrat would vote for it. On February 20, 2019, the mediation committee of the Bundestag and Bundesrat reached an agreement on a compromise.
Situation in Switzerland
In 2016, public spending on education in Switzerland was 5.6% of GDP.
See also
- Promotion of the gifted
- Educational return , return on education
- School fees , tuition fees , tuition fees in Germany
- Federal Training Assistance Act
- Welfare state
Web links
- International education expenditure as a percentage of GDP , Eurostat database for education
- Federal Statistical Office (Destatis): Subject area education finance , education finance report. Accessed on September 15, 2017
- Graphic: Education expenditure in Europe , from: Figures and facts: Europe , www.bpb.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Education Finance Report 2012. Federal Statistical Office, December 12, 2012, accessed on December 27, 2012 .
- ↑ Bundestag decides to amend the Basic Law The federal government should invest in schools, housing and local transport. In: lto.de. November 29, 2018, accessed December 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Mediation Committee reaches agreement on amendment of the Basic Law. In: press release. Federal Council, March 1, 2019, accessed on December 1, 2019 .
- ^ Federal Statistical Office: Public expenditure on education. Retrieved May 22, 2019 .