Education Efficiency....what is happening in VIC!

Been looking into Education funding, particularly in the Primary and Secondary Space.
Interesting to note that while education funding has increased over 14 years between 1999 and 2013, the number of schools operating has dropped.

I note that over the 14 years there has been a decrease of 194 schools...schools that have closed. But it's worse in the Government sector. Over the 14 years, 306 Government schools have closed...it's just that Catholic schools (16) and Independent Schools (96) have opened to counter the decrease. I guess that is why the rate of students in private schooling has increased over the years.

The biggest drops in schools have been in VIC (105 Government schools closed), SA (101 Government schools closed) and QLD (64 Government schools closed). The only difference is that in QLD, an equivalent amount of Catholic and Independent schools have opened, leaving only a net loss of 1 school. The other two states are still in the deficit of schools by around 100.

Number of schools has only increased in two states, NT and WA...probably due to the mining boom over the years.

What is also interesting is that even with these school closure in VIC, and QLD...the number of Government teaching staff is still increasing...for VIC, at 1.1% a year and for QLD, at 1.6% a year. SA bucks the trend, experiencing a loss of teachers of 0.2% a year.

So we have a situation where in VIC, in 1999 it was 23 teachers per government school....now in 2013, it is 29 teachers per school.

Not great efficiency really. Think the teachers union have a lot of power in VIC!