even in state -funded systems where each student is funded to the same amount , inequalities become opparent (burton,1999) it is possible to alieviate these inequalities to some extent by targeting resources to meet particular needs. Those students requirin additional educational supportcan identified and targeted with additional resources to ensure any extra cost of educating particular grow of students can be met without depriving other students within the school or college of their should clearly the onus is on the identification of the need in the first place that will enable this extra fund to be relesed so in those institution where the identification is managed more effectively a great level of overall funding will be achieved,