Patrick Ainley and Martin Allen
Times Higher Education Supplement 20/4/2007
Raising the school-leaving age to 18 could do more than any other measure to widen participation in higher education. But not in the heavy-handed and incriminating way that the Government proposes.
Staying at school or going to college is now the norm for most 16-year-olds. But widening participation [...]
Patrick Ainley
The Guardian 13/03/2007
Education make you fick, innit?” was how one further education student explained why he was not “aiming higher” for university. So it’s perhaps not surprising that many young people oppose raising the school-leaving age to 18. They echo the working-class children and families who saw the previous raising of the school-leaving age [...]
Martin Allen and Patrick Ainley
Letter TES 09/02/07
Government plans to raise the school leaving age to 18 in 2013 have been largely welcomed by educators but the response of many young people has not been positive. It echoes that of many working-class school children and their families when the school leaving age was raised from 15 [...]
