as has already been found in the publicly funded schools in the usa where to large extent local taxes support local more affluent areas tend to have better funded schools local variations between schools and colleges, dependent upon the affluence of parents or students, are found in other staff-funded education systems schools in south africa can request based on the outcome of a parents meeting that parents make specific donations to the school funds, in the uk local fund raising is very dependent upon how much parents can afford to give. At the post-compulsory level, the costs of state education are being increasingly shiffed to the individual who will ultimately benefit in salary terms from the education