Table showing Actual Expenditure on Education By All Departments, 1944/45, and System of Payments of Grants-in-Aid to Non-Governmental Schools British in Palestine before 1948 (Nakba), Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 642. Chapter XVI: Social Services : Section 2: Description of Education Systems : Table 4. Non-Public schools in the Arab and Jewish communities

CHAPTER XVI.

Table 4.

ACTUAL EXPENDITURE ON EDUCATION BY ALL DEPARTMENTS DURING THE FINANCIAL YEAR 1944/45.*

£P. £P.
I. Administration mid inspectorate (Arab
and Hebrew): 'Overhead charges:-
Salaries 85,402
Other charges 8,827
--
44,229
Schools ,
(i) cl rah :
Salaries 237,451
Compensatory allowances 174,355
Books, furniture and equipment, and
rations for boarders 69,111
Scholarships, maintenance allowances 3,585
Grants-in-aid (recurrent) 20,193
Rents and maintenance of buildings 10,78*1
Kadoorie Agricultural School, Tulkarm 12,252
Non-recurrent expenditure 10,020
537,751
(ii) Jewish:
Block grants to Va'ad Leumi 116,298
Grants to other Jewish schools 25,057
Kadoorie Agricultural School, Mount
Tabor 16,585
-- 157,935
3. miscellaneous , 2.487 2,487 742,402

Apart from the expenditure of Government shown above, large sums of money are spent by private bodies and foreign organisations on education in the country.

System of payment of Grants-in-aid to non-Government schools. (a) NON-PUBLIC SCHOOLS, ARAB AND JEWISH.

50. Before 1922 no material help was given by Government to other than Government schools; but in that year a grant-in-aid was sanctioned, calculated on a per capita rate, payable to schools providing a minimum of general education and fulfilling other
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* Including compensatory allowances for the high cost of living, and certain expenditure by the Departments of Public Works and Agriculture.

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