Children starting year 7 will be the first to be legally required to stay in education until they are 17. It is the first stage of a two-part reform, which will see the school leaving age raised to 18 for pupils now aged nine and starting Year Five. I see why this could be a good idea because it will get more people educated at a higher level, and more people may then end up getting better jobs and more money. However I think at the age of 16 pupils are old enough to make their own choices on what they want to do.
Secondly if someone does not want to stay on in education after 16 but they are made to they may just not bother trying, and may have an "anti-school" behaviour and disrupt others from learning. This will mean those who don't want to learn probably won't do very well, and will be wasting the teachers time for trying to help them. Also they will be wasting their own time in which they could be finding jobs for themselves and earning money. Another problem is sixth forms and colleges will end up being overcrowded so less attention will be spent on the individuals.
Also we still need people in lower skilled jobs, and as people will be carrying on education to a higher age more people may aim for higher skilled jobs so there will be too much competition for those type of jobs and not enough people for lower skilled jobs. Therefore I think this is not a good idea and will not work out very well.
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