capitation grant

There was also an increase in capitation grants (government subsidies towards public education) under Mills.

He implemented the new free basic education referred to as the Capitation Grant.

Factors contributing to this included the introduction of the capitation grant, the school feeding programme and other such social interventions.

The resolution was amended to extend the poll to all voters, and to include the question of capitation grants for non-state schools.

Are you in favour of the payment of a capitation grant to denominational schools for secular results?

Gaelscoileanna are allocated an extra teacher and a higher capitation grant than an equivalent English medium school.

O'Reily blamed the Labor Party for the loss of the capitation grant.

At the referendum, South Australians affirmed the system of free secular education, but rejected scriptural readings in schools and the capitation grant.

Prior to World War II, soldiers served voluntarily and were paid "capitation grants" according to efficiency ratings without regard to race.

Secondly, in 1976 the States of Jersey agreed to provide the school with generous financial assistance in the form of a capitation grant for running costs.

The Capitation Grant and the School Feeding Programs implemented by the government through the district assembly has increased school enrolment.

In the 1914 Grant Code, grants were paid in the form of capitation grant (for each pupil presented for the examination).

Salaries were at this time boosted by 'capitation grants' so Criche suffered badly while a more successful Head Master could do rather better.

The government were providing 90% capitation grants to schools to build and expand in addition to Donogh O'Malley providing free education for all, leading to increased numbers.

The South Australian public affirmed the system of free, secular, state education in place at the time, and rejected scriptural instruction in state schools and a capitation grant for religious schools.

Unlike the Sea Cadet Corps, Sea Scouts are not financially supported by the MoD, apart from an annual capitation grant to the Scout Association.

In addition, federal and state governments need to reinstitute a highly successful program, the capitation grant program, used in the early 1970's to increase the number of students admitted to schools of nursing.

Each doctor who participated in the scheme thus had a 'panel' of those who have made an insurance under the system, and was paid a capitation grant out of the fund calculated upon the number.

In 1896, a colony-wide referendum sought to gauge public opinion on state education, scripture reading in state schools, and the provision of capitation grants (fixed grants per student) to non-state schools.

For example, on capitation grants alone, the Constitution has been amended on three occasions, in 1977, 1993 and most recently in 2002, to increase federal capitation grants to the States.

It was left to the Federal Government through the 1976 Health Manpower Ball, to try to force compliance on the schools by making federal capitation grants conditional on the schools increasing the proportion of primary care graduates to 50 per cent by 1980.

The Southern Cross, Adelaide's Catholic newspaper, pointed out that the capitation grant alone, and not scriptural instruction, had been requested by the Catholic Church, and that it was the size of the margin, rather than the result, that was of interest.

On the subject of a capitation grant, O'Reily was strongly supportive, arguing that moral impediments prevented Catholics from using secular education, and that, since religious schools provided elements of secular education as well as religious instruction, they should receive government assistance.

It is not surprising therefore that over the decades changes needed to be made to keep pace with the growth of the nation and changing circumstance, such as increasing the number of judges (due to growth in population and economic activity) and the amount of federal capitation grants to each State (due to inflation).

The Anglican bishop of Adelaide John Harmer, who had been an advocate of both scriptural instruction in schools and the capitation grant, distributed a pastoral letter to his diocese in the wake of the referendum, conceding that the result had decisively shown that these reforms would be unlikely to gain support.