Were your schooldays the best days of your life? I think they were aboutmood swings, music and socialising, because the actual classes are a bitof a blank.
So how would you like to have to stay there until you're 18? Whynot?
The Department for Education and Skills is consulting on that very idea,though some cynics have commented that they think the proposals arereally a desperate effort to cut the Neet statistics.
Neet? Not in education, employment or training. The Government wants 90per cent of 17-year-olds to participate in education or training by2015. The structure of the economy has changed, lower-skilled manualjobs are hard to find, and a whole section of the population seems to bein danger of being left behind in terms of earning power, jobsatisfaction and all the related outcomes. The DfES says that those whoachieve fewer than five G grades at GCSE are six times more likely todrop out of education at the age of 16 than those who achieve five ormore A* to C grades.
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