While I was looking at some education stats today I came a cross some interesting information on the General Teaching Council's website. There budget for 2009-10 is a staggering £21.1m almost all paid for by teachers' registration fees. This is a break down of their budget:

Registration: £4.4m
Communications - £3.7m
Regulation: £3.6m
Governanace, fee collection and administration: £3.5
Networks and the TLA: £3.4m
Policy and research: £2.5m


You might notice the £3.7m for "communications". This includes, I imagine, the salaries for non-jobs such as a Media Relations Adviser, Communications and PR manager and a Marketing and PR Manager. Why on earth does an organization which oversees teachers in schools need to spend almost £4m of our money advertising themselves? Are they trying to sell something?

I am going to see if I can get a breakdown on what they spend some of this money on and salaries. Watch this space!