evidence: "The price of past division, and its consequences in the present day, can be measured in financial, social and even environmental costs. Our research would estimate the total additional cost of maintaining a divided education system at £226 million each year, or over £600,000 every day of the year. Societal divisions persist and continue to cost our economy, define our confrontational politics and blight the lives of many of the people who live here. These costs can also be seen in our education system, where division, separation and duplication all add unnecessary and increasingly unaffordable costs. Consequently, funding which could be spent directly on educating children and young people is wasted. [...] Transforming Education Briefing Paper 18 "The Cost of Division in Northern Ireland" available to download here pdf • 1 MB