Cuts planned to public education spending by 2014/15 are to be the largest in a four-year period since the 1950s, according to research from the Institute of Fiscal Studies. State spending will be reduced by more than 13% with under-fives, 16 to 19-year-olds and building programmes being the hardest hit:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/oct/24/education-cut-deepest-since-1950s
