Education Finance
Education accounts for 15% of the national budget of which 9.5% is allotted to H.E.
In 2003 the state's total expenditure on education was 48 Billion Rwandan Francs (£48.6 million or $86m).
Between 1996 and 2001 total public spending rose from 3.2% to 5.5%. However much of this was chancellery in to Secondary and Tertiary education at the expense of Primary.
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