The admission by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) that it expected the number of pupils to fall by a further 50,000 next year, on top of the 50,000 fewer pupils this year, was made last week as education secretary Charles Clarke sought to 'restore stability and certainty' to school budgets over the next two years.
Mr Clarke announced in the House of Commons that schools whose pupil numbers stayed the same would receive a 4 per cent rise in their overall budget next year and also for 2005-06. The DfES said this was above the 3.4 per cent increase in 'unavoidable cost pressures' it expected schools to experience next year.
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