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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COMMONWEALTH GRANTS COMMISSION FOR EDUCATION POLICY‐MAKING IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA

P.J. JONES (Acting Senior Lecturer in Educational Administration at the Western Australian Institute of Technology. She holds the B.A. degree and Dip.Ed. of the University of Western Australia, the Dip.Ed.Admin. from the W.A.I.T. and the degree of M.Ed.Admin.(Hons.) of the University of New England. She took up her present position after extensive teaching and administrative experience with the Education Department of W.A.)

Journal of Educational Administration

ISSN: 0957-8234

Article publication date: 1 February 1974

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Abstract

This case study investigates the contention that the Commonwealth Grants Commission, through the methods and procedures it employed to determine the special grants it recommended for payment to Western Australia, was influential in education policy formulation in that State. Although certain benefits were gained for education in relation to the level of finance expended on it, the State surrendered a considerable degree of its control over the direction which educational expenditure could have taken because it depended on the special grants to balance its budget during its period of claimancy.

Citation

JONES, P.J. (1974), "THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COMMONWEALTH GRANTS COMMISSION FOR EDUCATION POLICY‐MAKING IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA", Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 12 No. 2, pp. 83-94. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009714

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MCB UP Ltd

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