| Quality education: The concept will be approached from sociological, political, educational and financial perspectives. In analysing the concept from all these different perspectives, the following aspects will be addressed: defining the concept, indicators of quality education, mechanisms for assessing quality education, and factors contributing to the quality of education. A brief overview of current international drives on this matter will also be given.Funding of education: This aspect will be discussed analysing the process trying to provide answers to the following questions. Whose responsibility is the funding of education? What are the sources of funding? What kinds of funding are involved in the process? What percentage of the national budget is spent on education? How are funds disseminated through the education system to reach school level? Who has discretionary powers over the spending of funds to provide education at school level? How is money spent at school level to enhance the quality of education in schools?The relationship between funding and quality education: An overview will be given on the relationship between the levels of funding of education and the quality of education as reported in literature. Aspects that will be highlighted are: Are there indications of a clear positive link between the level of funding and the quality of education? Are there indicators of the critical factors that money should be spent on to improve the quality of education? A discussion of three international examples of research on this matter.
An increase in the funding of education will improve the quality of education - is this theory or praxis? Summarising the preceding discussions, drawing conclusions based on the research that the preceding discussions were based, will serve as the basis for providing an answer to this question in the title of this paper. | 
