The recent Queen's Speech confirmed the government's intention for young people to remain in education or training until the age of 18. Shortly before that, the long-awaited framework of public service agreements, embraced the twin educational goals of raising achievement and reducing exclusion and dropout, with a specific target to reduce the proportion of young people not in education, employment or training (NEETs).
Perhaps all this seems so obvious. From the needs of local labour markets to the competitiveness of the member states of the European Union, learning is for everyone. And then Frank Field throws a spanner in the works - could not some young people leave school at 14, subject to certain thresholds of achievement, he asks?
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