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High spending cities: an historical perspective
No full textThe Government have declared war on ‘over-spending’ authorities. But is over-spending simply a product of the Government's new method for distributing block grant, or does it reflect much longer-term differences between the levels of cost and service obtaining in different areas?</p
A new financial framework for the local authority education service in Britain
No full textArgues that the British block grant system for local government finance is becoming increasingly inappropriate as a means of achieving both equalisation and control of local spending. It calls for a separate educational block grant which would facilitate achievement of both these objectives. Furthermore, it would clarify the fields of responsibility of British central and local government by integrating the concept of minimum standards of service provision into the grant system.</p
The costs of sixth-form rationalisation (UK)
No full textMany local education authorities are currently rationalising the institutional structure of sixth-form provision in their areas. This paper provides a brief review of the educational options available but its main emphasis is on the costs of rationalisation. The restructuring of sixth-form provision will have cost implications for the other parts of the educational system providing secondary and post 16 education. Hence the option which minimises sixth-form costs may cause an off-setting rise in costs in other areas, e.g. in 11 to 16 education. Such costs are examined by taking two case studies, namely Manchester and Newcastle Upon Tyne.</p
Central city decline and the provision of education services
No full textThis article analyses the fiscal consequences of demographic decline for local services in seven British cities. It takes the form of an economist's view of both the ability and willingness of local authorities to reduce provision of the education service in response to falling pupil numbers. A considerable excess of resource inputs is found to exist over a long period, with consequently higher local rate bills and lost opportunities for effective corporate planning. Some explanation of this maldistribution of local resources is attempted by way of the in-built time lags, departmental-ism, provision for future need, pressure group resistance, political ideology, inertia and the complex multi-disciplinary nature of the subject.</p
The effect of fit of gas-permeable hard contact lenses on corneal physiological response
No full textEight subjects were fitted with gas-permeable (Polycon) hard contact lenses of varying base curves (all other parameters constant) to study the effect of lens fit on corneal physiology. Other factors, besides base curve, that might affect oedema are considered using multiple regression analysis. Results are compared with those of similar studies using PMMA and soft (Durasoft) lenses
Central city decline and the provision of local-authority services - a case study of the city of Glasgow
No full textThis paper set out to study the effects of both demographic and economic decline on the provision of local authority services and to test several hypotheses. It has been seen that a simple relationship between demographic decline and the expected rundown of services does not exist even for those services which are directly related to size of population. This is because the structure of the diminishing population has changed, leading to a relative increase in the proportion of dependent age groups and of lower socio economic groups in city population, giving support to the hypothesis of selective outmigration. -from Author</p
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