Parliament last month passed a bill that will result in all teenagers
remaining in education or training until the age of 18 from 2015.
This will first be rolled out until the age of 17 in 2013.
Well I am not sure about this move. For many it will be really unpleasant christmas gift from the goverment. Although I think that all teenagers should stay in education and get higher qualification than GCSE, I am very against forcing anybody to do so. On the continent you can find very few (if any) coutries, where education is compulsory beyond 16. And still the numbers of students droping the school is significantly lower. Why is that?
I can use an example fom my home country - Slovakia (not suggesting, that our education system is or was better though). In Slovakia and Czech Republic the compulsory age is 16, but secondary school ends at 15 (there are no GCSE exams and if you perform really badly you can be held behind and finish at 16 ) and students have one more year to go. So you have to choose college, Gymnazium (form of french lyceum) or some sort of vocational qualification and do it for at least one more year. And becouse most of these courses are between 2 - 4 years most sudents decide to carry on. Matura (equivalent to A level similar to German Abitur) is actually most expected qualification in the workplace like offices, for team leaders and so on. And is nercessity if you want to go to Uni.
In my opinion, this form of motivation and promoting further education is better then making it compulsory till 18.
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