United Kingdom

Introduction

The land of Shakespeare, the Beatles, Heavy Metal.

Rich influx of cultures from the colonies.

Names and numbers

ISO: UK

Stats

General

Population: 66.65 million

Yearly intake of children: 810936

Yearly intake as % of population: 1.22%

Yearly outgoing of children:

Children at school

• Children at primary school: 4.5 million
• Children in secondary (state schools): 2.75 million

Schoolbook renewal period: ???

No of primary school years: 6

Hours at primary school per day = 5

School days in the year = 195

English learnt at school: true

English primary language: true

English learnt as a second language: false

Second language comment:

Teaching

Teachers

• Number of primary teachers: 183762
• Number of secondary school teachers: 185429

Teaching costs

• Primary school, Real per hour: 4.82 GBP

Cost to educate a person to 21 years old: 73000 GBP

Literacy

• 9 million working aged adults in England (more than a quarter of adults aged 16-65) with low literacy or numeracy skills or both.

Spelling

Spell teaching in primary school (hours per day) = 1

Spell teaching per year = 195 h

To train spelling

• per primary school pupil / year = 195*4.82 = 940 GBP
• per pupil during primary school = 940*6 = 5460 GBP
• per class during primary school = 195*6 = 1270 h

National costs for primary school spell teaching

• England = 940*4.5e6 = 4.23 billion GBP / year

Percentage costs for a pupils education

• 5460/73000*100 = 7.5%

Enlingua efficiency improvement

For every month saved

• Savings for the State per year: 63 million GBP

A 10% efficiency improvement

• Per child during primary school = 5460*0.1 = 540 GBP
• Per class during primary school = 1270*0.1 = 127 h = 127/5h/5d = 5 weeks
• Savings for the State on all pupils per year = 4.23e9*0.1 =: 423 million GBP

But would also result in:

• accelerated learning
• improvement in other subjects

How many children are learning English

Number of intakes: 810936

• Daily (810936/365) = 2221, approx. 2k per day
• Hourly (810936/365/24) = 93, rounding = 90 children start to learn EN every hour.

Time relevant:

• Per minute = 810936/365/24/60 = 1.54 children.
• Or roughly every minute a child starts to learn to read.
• Per breath = 810936/365/24/60/60*4 = 0.103
• Or one child per 10 breaths.

References

No. of children:

• https://databank.worldbank.org/source/education-statistics-%5e-all-indicators
• Enrolment in Grade 1 of primary education, both sexes (number) (UIS.E.1.G1)
• Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
• Year: 2017

Literacy skills

• http://www.oecd.org/education/skills-beyond-school/building-skills-for-all-review-of-england.pdf
• 2016
• OECD

Number of primary and secondary teachers

• The Economic Cost of Current English Spelling
• Research project Coventry University
• 2007
• Zuzana Kotercová
• https://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/kotercova.pdf
• Stats from 2000

Cost of spell teaching

• Kotercová, The Economic Cost of Current English Spelling, 2007

2018 Annual Report on Education Spending in England

• Institute for Fiscal Studies
• https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/publications/comms/R150.pdf
• IFS 4700 GBP/pupil = 4.82 GBP / pupil / hour. (see extra calc.)

Costs to educate a person

• https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/13710

Hours at school

• Primary https://www.stanley.richmond.sch.uk/school-hours/