Cytermann, Jean-Richard

Budget Choices for Education - 2007.


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France spends more than the average of developed countries for education, without achieving better results. The distribution of spending between the different educational levels is totally a-typical. It favors secondary education at the expense of both primary and higher education. The pressures on public spending will impose a number of choices and the additional effort to be made for higher education will have to be accompanied by a better use of funds for the primary and secondary levels.