§ Mr. Malcolm MacPhersonasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the amounts per child spent on African and European education, respectively, in Kenya, in each of the last three completed financial years.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydSince comparable figures are not yet available for 1957–58 the figures below are for the years 1954–55 to 1956–57.
Gross recurrent expenditure per head of school population for European primary education as compared with African primary and intermediate education, ignoring pupils in unaided schools and administrative overheads, was
£ p.a. — 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 African … 3.35 3.6 4.1 European … 82.0 82.0 78.0 For secondary and trade and technical education the figures were
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£ p.a. — 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 African … 124 136 134 European … 188 178 178 The above figures do not include expenditure on African and European education by voluntary agencies, nor do they allow for fees brought to account to offset Government or local authority expenditure. On the average these fees have worked out at about £1 for each African at school and £50 for each European.