This briefing examines government and private funding across educational sectors. Key findings include: (1) Differences in funding for public and private education across the sectors: (a) do not reflect policy coherence; and (b) entrench inequities; (2) All sectors receive funding from both public and private sources, though the shares vary. Private funding is uncapped in independent schools and negligible in Government schools; (3) Private schools receive more government funding for students than public universities; and (4) While school student staff ratios have been declining, university student staff ratios have been increasing. (Contains 2 tables and 14 footnotes.)