This table outlines the New Zealand Government's planned Education spending for the 2024/25 budget year.
Actual spending for the previous five years is on the left.
The numbers are drawn from Vote Education, Vote Tertiary Education and Vote Education Review Office.
Links to the primary source used, from Treasury's website, can be found at the bottom of the page.
Please note that some of the allocation titles have been shortened for the sake of space.
Figures for each allocation are in millions of NZ$.
| Actual 2019/20 | Actual 2020/21 | Actual 2021/22 | Actual 2022/23 | Estimate 2023/24 | Budget 2024/25 | % | |
| NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | NZ$m | ||
| 5.6 | 21.1 | 3.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Education Providers with COVID-19-Related Losses of Income | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 53.3 | 42.3 | 69.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | Access to Tertiary Education | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 8.5 | 4.5 | 2.0 | 0.0 | Careers System Online | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 7.5 | 9.2 | 8.3 | 4.3 | 0.7 | University-led Innovation | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.6 | 9.1 | 18.9 | 1.8 | 6.2 | Impairment of Debts and Assets and Debt Write-Offs | 1.6 | 0.0% |
| 27.1 | 67.1 | 21.2 | 40.6 | 22.9 | Vocational Education | 5.0 | 0.0% |
| 5.7 | 6.5 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 9.3 | Home Schooling Allowances | 9.7 | 0.0% |
| 14.9 | 13.4 | 11.7 | 10.4 | 11.1 | Scholarships and Awards Students | 13.0 | 0.1% |
| 17.9 | 15.7 | 16.1 | 18.4 | 14.2 | Stewardship and Oversight of the Tertiary Education System | 13.0 | 0.1% |
| 16.5 | 19.8 | 17.8 | 12.8 | 14.9 | Contributions to Other Agencies | 15.5 | 0.1% |
| 26.1 | 34.3 | 42.8 | 25.8 | 17.1 | Tertiary Sector / Industry Collaboration Projects | 17.4 | 0.1% |
| 17.1 | 14.9 | 19.5 | 20.3 | 20.6 | Tertiary Scholarships and Awards | 20.7 | 0.1% |
| 22.4 | 21.4 | 18.2 | 22.9 | 24.2 | Supporting Parents & the Community | 23.4 | 0.1% |
| 28.8 | 28.8 | 29.3 | 29.7 | 29.3 | School Managed Network Funding | 28.8 | 0.1% |
| 32.3 | 17.3 | 92.2 | 45.8 | 79.5 | Support for Place-based inititatives | 29.0 | 0.1% |
| 31.8 | 32.7 | 37.7 | 32.2 | 28.4 | International Education Programmes | 30.3 | 0.1% |
| 6.9 | 24.8 | 20.0 | 23.4 | 33.7 | Schooling Improvement | 31.2 | 0.1% |
| 22.0 | 22.7 | 18.4 | 31.0 | 39.1 | Scholarships and Awards for Teachers and Trainees | 46.3 | 0.2% |
| 49.8 | 49.8 | 49.8 | 49.8 | 49.8 | Centres of Research Excellence | 49.8 | 0.2% |
| 32.9 | 35.6 | 34.6 | 40.2 | 52.7 | Education Review Office | 54.3 | 0.2% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 50.2 | 65.0 | 65.0 | Workforce Development Councils | 65.0 | 0.3% |
| 70.0 | 92.8 | 77.2 | 80.5 | 72.9 | Administration of and Support for the Tertiary Education and Careers Systems | 79.3 | 0.3% |
| 0.0 | 8.1 | 0.0 | 41.7 | 78.1 | Strategic Support for National and Regional Priorities | 83.8 | 0.4% |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 347.1 | 283.3 | Fees-free Payments | 129.6 | 0.6% |
| 270.9 | 148.1 | 145.6 | 140.1 | 140.8 | Oversight and Administration of the Qualifications & Education System | 133.3 | 0.6% |
| 207.6 | 216.3 | 209.8 | 235.5 | 254.9 | School Transport | 255.6 | 1.1% |
| 331.0 | 321.0 | 321.0 | 315.0 | 315.0 | Tertiary Education Research and Research-Based Teaching | 315.0 | 1.4% |
| 284.0 | 287.4 | 367.5 | 389.7 | 397.6 | Improved Quality Teaching and Learning | 358.6 | 1.6% |
| 859.0 | 1,136.8 | 1,276.4 | 1,376.0 | 1,498.4 | Outcomes for Target Student Groups | 1,492.9 | 6.5% |
| 1,104.9 | 1,491.7 | 1,618.3 | 1,849.0 | 2,114.8 | Capital Expenditure | 2,041.2 | 8.9% |
| 1,996.9 | 2,123.2 | 2,241.0 | 2,347.2 | 2,608.5 | Early Learning | 2,801.5 | 12.2% |
| 3,911.3 | 2,019.0 | 3,205.1 | 2,787.9 | 2,943.7 | Tertiary Tuition and Training | 3,089.2 | 13.4% |
| 2,076.6 | 2,022.8 | 2,480.2 | 2,786.6 | 3,290.4 | School Property, Furniture and Equipment | 3,309.4 | 14.4% |
| 6,062.8 | 7,035.4 | 7,147.5 | 7,243.7 | 8,242.7 | Primary and Secondary Education | 8,471.1 | 36.8% |
| 17,594 | 17,397 | 19,682 | 20,424 | 22,760 | Total Spending | 23,014 | 100% |
| Less: Recoveries | |||||||
| 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 2.8 | 0.0 | Miscellaneous Revenue | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.9 | 0.5 | 2.8 | 3.5 | 0.0 | Tertiary Recoveries | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 2.4 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 4.0 | 0.0 | Asset Sales | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 0.0 | 9.2 | 17.7 | 1.2 | 2.7 | Miscellaneous Receipts | 2.3 | 0.0% |
| 3.5 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 3.8 | Overseas Students' Fees | 3.8 | 0.0% |
| 3.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 4.1 | Export Education Levies | 4.1 | 0.0% |
| 10.7 | 14.7 | 24.3 | 13.0 | 10.5 | Total Education | 10.1 | 0.0% |
| 17,583 | 17,383 | 19,658 | 20,411 | 22,749 | Net Education | 23,004 | 100% |
You can get back to the main page that summarises all government spending here >>
Sources: You can download the data behind these tables from the NZ Government website here.
4 Comments
331.0 321.0 321.0 315.0 315.0 Tertiary Education Research and Research-Based Teaching 315.0 1.4%
Eh? Where does the 1.4% come from? Spending has been the same and projected to stay there? Gone down since 2019... 🙄
Edit. Oh i see it's the proportion of the total 🤪
I thought National were pumping billions more into education?. its around 4 300 million or 1.4 % more.
Wonder what those increases in Home Schooling Allowances could tell us about peoples trust in the education system in NZ.
So $22.749b -> $23.004b. A nominal increase of 1.12%, or a reduction of 1.09% in real terms after accounting for the 2.24% inflation forecast by Treasury over the June 24 - June 25 financial year.
Not spread evenly of course, tertiary training spend increases by 4.93% in nominal terms.
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