Most of us welcome the idea because of education's significant andpositive influence on future life chances, and many young people willsee it as an opportunity, but is compulsion the right way forward?
For many vulnerable young people those educationally crucial yearsbetween the ages of 15 and 18 are difficult and traumatic, making themunable to cope with school or college. NCB has spoken to many youngpeople estranged from education, and a common theme is that at the timeof their GCSEs, their lives were simply a mess. Having sorted themselvesout and grown up a bit they realised, often too late, what they missedout on.
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