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Cut school leaving age to 14, says Sir Chris Woodhead
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-15146240
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The school leaving age should be cut to 14, a former chief inspector of schools in England has said.
Sir Chris Woodhead told the Times that this would give less academic students a better chance of learning a trade.
He said it was a "recipe for disaster" to force teenagers to study English and maths right up to the age of 18.
Sir Chris said it was a mistake to make vocational education "quasi-academic" and added that the government had a "Utopian" view of school standards.
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Are we going back in time here?
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