One cannot help but welcome also the promise of free universal education (not schooling) for all to the age of 18; an end, one hopes, to the current lottery of the 16-18 phase of education with poorly managed transitions and inadequate offers, which mean many young people find themselves either not in education or training that meet their needs - in low skilled, low waged work with no thought by their employer of fostering their learning - or indeed unemployed or disengaged.
When the 16-18 phase of learning becomes part of the mandatory offer then surely there will have to be an investment of resources into the alternative programmes of learning run in non-formal settings.
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