In her introduction to the Budget document setting out the future of benefits for young people, paymaster general Dawn Primarolo said the Government's ambition was for the UK to have one of the highest number of young people remaining in education after the age of 16 in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
In theory, this should be easy. The UK is the world's fourth biggest economy, so it would be reasonable to suspect we're pretty high up the league already.
But the UK is only 20th in a league of 27 OECD nations when it comes to keeping people in education once school is no longer compulsory.
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