OECD Economic Survey of Ireland [INTO.ie]
- Published: 06 November 2009
What the report says about education spending
Public expenditure on education amounted to only 4.2% of GDP in Ireland in 2006, compared with the EU average of 5.2%, but it is close to the EU average amount per student (Sutherland et al., 2007). Student/teacher ratios are now among the lowest in the EU at the secondary level, though closer to the norm at primary and tertiary levels (ECB, 2009b). At the same time, compensation costs per unit of output have risen and the proportion of current spending devoted to teacher salaries at primary, secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary levels is well above the OECD average, at 75% of total current expenditure.
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