Argument in the presentation

• Education is the PRIORITY ONE for the nation. Does the budget reflect this?
• We present analyses of the shares and trends of educational spending and educational outcomes.
• While applauding fee-free tertiary education, we appeal for setting conditions for continued funding.
• Highlight that the unintended consequence of fee-free tertiary education may be a reduction of the schooling budget, and in particular the budget for early learning.
• Solid educational foundations are key to any future educational, labour market and societal success. Investments in early years to build solid foundations means less need to play catch up later.
• We propose prioritising first five years of school/first 1000 days of school (Grade RR, R, 1, 2, 3) to improve the pace of educational outcome changes.