The three pie chart below show the total school spending in UK in three periods.

These three graphs depict the amount of money spent on the academy in the United Kingdom in 1981, 1991 and 2001.

Overall

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, the three pie charts look similar and proportional. The sector that remained regular from 1981 to 2001 is the teachers’ salaries.

However

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, the major changes are furniture, equipment and resources, e.g. books. In 1981, the revenue of the teachers were 40% of the school spending. Twenty years later, the salary has only been raised to 45%.

While

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earnings stayed constant, the income of the other worker decreased from 28% in 1981 to only 15% 2001. The most noticeable differences are in the resources and in the furniture. Books represented 20% of the school spending in 1991, but ten years later, they only symbolized 9% of the money.

In contrast

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with the reading materials, the equipment increased by 18% from 1991 to 2001. In the 20’s , the academy gave more importance to insurance because it had multiplied by 4 over 20 years.