HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Jan. 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Spending on public faculties has elevated in each Maritime province lately, regardless of the area experiencing the biggest declines in enrolment throughout the nation, finds a brand new examine by the Fraser Institute, an unbiased, non-partisan Canadian public coverage think-tank.
“Opposite to what we regularly hear, public college spending is on the rise throughout the Maritime provinces, although there are fewer and fewer college students to teach,” stated Tegan Hill, an economist with the Fraser Institute and co-author of Education Spending in Public Schools in Canada, 2021 Edition.
The examine finds that Atlantic Canada skilled the biggest declines in public college enrolment throughout Canada from 2013/14 to 2017/18, the newest yr of accessible Statistics Canada knowledge.
New Brunswick skilled the biggest decline in enrolment among the many provinces with 2.2 per cent fewer college students. Nova Scotia noticed a 1.7 per cent decline in pupil enrolment, and Prince Edward Island’s enrolment was important flat with a rise of simply 0.3 per cent.
On the identical time, after adjusting for inflation and enrolment modifications, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and P.E.I. all skilled per-student spending will increase that exceeded the nationwide common enhance of three.8 per cent.
Nova Scotia skilled the biggest per pupil spending on public college enhance wherever within the nation at 15.2 per cent. New Brunswick’s per pupil spending on public education elevated 5.1 per cent over the identical five-year interval, and now has the second-highest quantity per pupil nationwide at $15,000. P.E.I.’s per-student spending additionally notably elevated by 7.3 per cent.
Conversely, whereas Newfoundland and Labrador skilled the biggest enrolment decline nationwide of three.0 per cent, that province’s (inflation adjusted) per-student spending on public faculties additionally decreased 6.3 per cent.
“In essential coverage discussions, particularly those who have an effect on our youngsters’s schooling, it’s vital to grasp precisely what’s occurring with spending on public faculties, the place the vast majority of children are educated,” stated Alex Whalen, a coverage analyst with the Fraser Institute’s Atlantic Canada Initiative.
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