The three pie charts below show the changes in annual spending by a particular UK school in 1981, 1991 and 2001.

The charts show how much a UK school spent on different running costs in three separate years 1981, 1991 and 2001.

Overall

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teacher's

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teachers'

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salaries

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consulted the largest

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to the school, and

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spending increased dramatically

for

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on

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equipment and insurance, there were corresponding drops in expenditure on things

such

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as books and on other workers'

salaries

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. In all three years, the greatest expenditure was on staff

salaries

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. But

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other workers’

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saw a fall from 28% in 1981 to only 15% of spending in 2001, teachers’ pay remained the biggest

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reaching 50% of total spending in 1991 and ending at 45% in 2001. Expenditures on resources and furniture and equipment were similar at 15% in 1981. The spending

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on

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resources had increased to 20% by 1991 before decreasing to only 9% by the end of the period.

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, the

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of

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furniture and equipment saw an opposite trend.

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cost

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decreased to only 5% of total expenditure in 1991 but rose dramatically in 2001 when it represented 23% of the school budget.

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, the

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of insurance saw a rising trend, growing from only 2% to 8% by 2001.