School leaving age?
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It's cobblers.
It's proper cobblers.
See - cobblers.
from 2013 they are putting the school leaving age up to 18, i know this because that is the year Reece will leave school, it was on the news ages ago, Reece started secondary school today btw 
i think its a great idea to keep them in education longer
it says 17 but i heard 18
i think its a great idea to keep them in education longerit says 17 but i heard 18
It will be 18 eventually, by 2015. They are phasing it in in two stages.
from 2013 they are putting the school leaving age up to 18, i know this because that is the year Reece will leave school, it was on the news ages ago, Reece started secondary school today btw
it says 17 but i heard 18
Sorry off topic..... but......
Hope he has a great day
This has all been discussed before.
It's not raising the age of leaving school at all.
It's keeping people in some form of education (ie most likely a brick laying course at Accy & Ross) by law until the ages of 17/18.
It's another one of Browny's plans to make the English education system look remotely decent - statistically. Also used to cover up and blatantly twist unemployment figures. Two birds with one stone eh Gordie!
It's not raising the age of leaving school at all.
It's keeping people in some form of education (ie most likely a brick laying course at Accy & Ross) by law until the ages of 17/18.
It's another one of Browny's plans to make the English education system look remotely decent - statistically. Also used to cover up and blatantly twist unemployment figures. Two birds with one stone eh Gordie!
'Specialist diplomas will also be developed as an alternative to A-levels. Exam and university admission chiefs plan on making the highest-level diplomas equivalent to 3.5 A-levels or 420 tariff points.
The first diplomas will be offered in subjects like environmental and land-based studies, business, administration and finance.'
New secondary pupils will stay until 17
Equivalents to.... urgh. They should've just kept BTec & GNVQ courses.
Why try and fuse academic subjects and vocational choices together under the same leaky brolly? It's positive discrimination and it's wrong.
...and what is the Lib Dem's education policy, in the highly unlikely circumstance that they form the next Liberal government?
The first since 1915.
...and what is the Lib Dem's education policy, in the highly unlikely circumstance that they form the next Liberal government?
The first since 1915.
Goodness knows. Probably shipping everyone off to Harvard from the age of 4 and paying for it with chocolate coins
can't think of any reason fer this apart from massaging the unemployment figures, don't think its fer the kids benefit.
Did you think the same when they made the limit 16? Before that didn't many people leave at 14? Being a whipper snapper I can't remember what happened before the 16 limit.
do not honestly remember when it was raised to 16, i must have been a whipper snapper thenDid you think the same when they made the limit 16? Before that didn't many people leave at 14? Being a whipper snapper I can't remember what happened before the 16 limit.
twas 15 when i left, but it didn't really matter cos there was employment fer all,
When I left school aged 16, in 1959, the legal leaving age was 15. Pupils taking O levels, usually at High or Grammar Schools, stayed on until 16. I'm not sure when the legal age was raised to 16 but it was in the 60s.
The leaving age had been 14 before the war and prior to that pupils could leave school on a "part-time" basis at 13. My dad fell into that catagory. He left Hyndburn Park school in 1922, when he was 14, but for the previous year he had only attended school half days, the other half he worked at Steiners. He got his further education at Night School and he was doing that until he was 18.
The leaving age had been 14 before the war and prior to that pupils could leave school on a "part-time" basis at 13. My dad fell into that catagory. He left Hyndburn Park school in 1922, when he was 14, but for the previous year he had only attended school half days, the other half he worked at Steiners. He got his further education at Night School and he was doing that until he was 18.