The Education Ministry budget will increase by $885,000 to $85.9 million.

And it is the Department of Education that takes the biggest slice of the pie with $68,958,000 going towards the running of the curriculum and schools.

In the coming year, $356,000 more will be doled out to the department, an increase of just one percent.

The Ministry's headquarters will receive $4 million, divided up into the scholarships, administration, and sabbaticals and honoraria. Some $1.3 will be given out in scholarships and awards, a figure which includes $100,000 for the sponsorship of the educational programme Sesame Street.

The Ministry's headquarters will see a 357 percent increase or $100,000 in its advertising and promotion budget to $128,000.

CedarBridge's budget will see a six percent increase to $11.3 million, while Berkeley's operational budget will jump 21 percent to $5 million.

But $18 million will go toward the construction of the school, just part of the estimated $71.2 to be spent on the new campus.

In other capital projects, $4.6 million will be spent on the completion of the Middle School upgrade programme, mostly for Spice Valley, a former high school.

Some $200,000 this year will make at least one primary school in each district wheelchair accessible.

A half a million dollars will go toward a school safety review, made all the more urgent by concern over the damage in the Harrington Sound School. The Bermuda National Library will see a 23 percent increase in its budget, to $1.55 million, with its technical services department getting a 132 percent increase and the youth department seeing a 17 percent increase.

Thirty six thousand dollars is allotted for communications for the Library, a 500 percent increase, and the book budget has jumped 122 percent to $220,000.

The Bermuda College gets a 175,000 increase in its operating grant, topping out at $11,363,000.