We have seen how ideas like the Common Application for college admission has transformed the forms process for enlisting prospective students, simplifying the lives of both the institution and the students.

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More than 50 percent of the students attending HBCUs qualify for Pell Grants and other forms of support.

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The AOC says there are three times as many students eligible for a FSM at colleges than at school sixth-forms.

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It's an argument familiar to Sir Bob Russell, who has already told the Commons that Colchester Sixth Form College was the most successful in the country but that the funding given for each student was less than that given to students who attended school sixth forms.

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The report calls for better and more independent educational and careers advice for pupils as young as 14, new funding arrangements to dissuade sixth forms from "retaining students who would benefit from technical or vocational education" and a new TechBacc or VocBacc as an alternative to the Ebacc for technically minded GCSE students.

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