The Association of Colleges’ survey of 134 of its members found that schools without sixth forms were far more willing to provide a wide range of impartial advice about pupils’ options.
Advice given at non-sixth form schools was considered poor in just 14 per cent of cases, but 51 per cent of survey respondents said advice was poor, limited or non-existent in schools with a sixth form.
Among those schools offering "poor" advice about further education, a third prevented their pupils from attending college open days and in 58 per cent of cases schools refused to display information from rival colleges. Nine out of 10 of these schools also refused to allow college liaison officers to speak to all their pupils.
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