Raising the school leaving age to 18 in favour of giving young people “worthless” qualifications will destroy their job opportunities, said a thinktank paper published as the Education and Skills bill gets its second reading in the Commons today.Prof Alison Wolf, of King’s College London, said the government had ludicrously over-estimated the benefits of raising the education and training leaving age and massively under-estimated the costs.
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