English pupil funding at same level as when Tories took power, study finds

Real-terms funding per pupil at 2010 levels, teacher pay at 2001 levels, and building investment 25% below mid-2000s

Spending on each schoolchild's education in England has suffered an unprecedented 14-year-freeze since the Conservatives came to power, according to Britain's leading economics thinktank.

Funding per pupil is now at 2010 levels in real terms, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said in its latest analysis of school spending, while teacher pay was at about the same real-terms level as in 2001.