Article: Sixth-formers work for 50 hours a week; A-level switch puts pressure on pupils.

Article: Sixth-formers work for 50 hours a week ; A-level ...
Evening Mail;  September 12, 2000 ;     481 words ... ... head teachers have revealed. The new sixth form curriculum, under which students do ... this year to help pay for the changes, sixth form class sizes had risen to 29 in some cases ... heads were broadly supportive of the new sixth form curriculum, Mr Dunford stressed. But ...

Article: TEENWAGER; Sixth-formers work 57 hours a week ...
The Mirror (London, England);  June 4, 2001 ;     675 words ...Byline: DOROTHY LEPKOWSKA Education Correspondent NEARLY two thirds of teenagers work up to 57 hours a week juggling school assignments and paid jobs, a study out today shows. Most students aged 16 to 18 do longer hours than the majority of full-time employees - who clock up just 32.8 hours a week.

Article: Sixth form centres represent good value for money ...
M2 Presswire;  July 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... PRESSWIRE-22 July 2004-UK Government: Sixth form centres represent good value for money ... COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07222004 While sixth form centres in general further education ... 16 to 19: A survey of colleges with sixth form centres is published by the Office for ...

Article: Report highlights top results Support urged for ...
Yorkshire Post;  November 29, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Correspondent MINISTERS are being urged to give sixth-form colleges clear backing as a new report ... the last three years were dedicated to sixth-form education. A parallel report on college ... and John Leggott, in Rotherham, both sixth-form colleges. The report on college success ...

Article: SIXTH SENSE; THE opening of two new sixth form ...
Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England);  March 7, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... will open on the first school-based sixth form centres for Redcar and Cleveland. Building ... Eston Park School, under the name The Sixth Form Experience, to provide new post-16 ... establishment and running of the centres. The Sixth Form Experience has received more than 200 ...

Article: SCHOOL SPLIT ON SIXTH FORM PLAN; HEADS GIVE DAMNING ...
Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  February 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... and Skills Council criticises current sixth form provision and recommends sweeping changes ... not enough pupils staying on to the sixth form and not enough collaboration between ... modification; merging De La Salle's sixth form with St John Bosco's and putting them ...

Article: SIXTH FORM NOW RAGING.
Melton Times & Citizen (Melton Mowbray, England);  January 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... particular the disruption it will cause its sixth form. The school says every aspect of its sixth form was judged as good in a recent Ofsted inspection ... will effectively dismantle its successful sixth form. The preferred option speaks of a new ...