Raising school leaving age is ‘bad news for young people’

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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