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  Teenager husbandry

  Care farms achieve remarkable success with difficult teenagers, so why aren't they better funded?

• Famous school flops

  Gallery (14 pictures): The school leaving age is about to be raised to 18. But does dropping out of school early lead to a life of manual work and penury? It didn't for this lot …

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• Colleges welcome new leaving age plan

  5 Jan 2009: Further education leaders happy to take on teenagers from school but some still wary about funding and lecturers' pay

• School-leaving age may rise to 18 in effort to tackle unemployment

  5 Jan 2009:

  Government may also offer national insurance 'holiday' to employers taking on new workers

• Ucas-style system for sixth forms could be fiasco, warn colleges

  19 Dec 2008: Principals wary in wake of huge bureaucratic problems surrounding Sats and maintenance grants

• Queen's speech bills: education

  3 Dec 2008:

  Polly Curtis and Anthea Lipsett examines the government's children, skills and learning bill

• Two applications later, one student is still waiting

  3 Dec 2008:

  Hannah Smith is one of 100,000 caught up in grant chaos

• Three months late, more than 100,000 students wait for grant

  3 Dec 2008:

  Conservatives call for independent inquiry into fiasco as colleges forced to hand out money

• 'He doesn't know how lucky he is'

  2 Dec 2008:

  As the school leaving age officially rises to 18, Jessica Shepherd asks what difference it will make and talks to three generations of one family

• Academy schools: a matter of conflict

  28 Nov 2008:

  Jim Knight and John Bangs deliver contrasting opinions on the PricewaterhouseCoopers evaluation of academy schools

• Despite sponsors and high pay for teachers, there is no 'academy effect'

  27 Nov 2008:

  • Academies have not disadvantaged local schools, they are increasingly teaching national curriculum rather than taking radical approach

• The 'quickie' route to qualifications

  25 Nov 2008:

  Colleges have a radical plan to increase participation: the vocational degree tailored to a specific job. Peter Kingston reports

• Oxbridge to accept engineering diploma

  20 Nov 2008:

  Departments give credence to new qualification

• Company behind student grant delays has contract terminated

  20 Nov 2008:

  Data processing company Capita appointed by Learning and Skills Council (LSC) to take over

• Diplomas 'need overhaul to succeed'

  18 Nov 2008:

  Colleges should have more leeway to teach diplomas and more work needs to be done on the content, says college association head

• Few sign up for flagship diplomas

  14 Nov 2008:

  Tories say just 12,000 have registered in schools and colleges, well below the government target

• A pointless pattern of naming, shaming and blaming

  13 Nov 2008:

  The controversial National Challenge scheme is beginning to reap rewards. How easily the adverse publicity could have been avoided

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