• Proposing the motion, Richard Salter, from Somerset, said students at further education (FE) and sixth-form colleges were being discriminated against.

    BBC: Canteen

  • The paper will be presented to MPs at a reception to mark the launch of an all-party parliamentary group for sixth-form colleges.

    BBC: Education & Family

  • Further Education Minister John Hayes told MPs plans to shake up further education (FE) and sixth-form colleges' regulation would give them more freedom.

    BBC: Education Bill set to become law

  • On top of this, says the paper, sixth-form colleges have been hit hard by cuts, while the government has offered preferential funding to academies and free schools with sixth forms.

    BBC: Education & Family

  • The FSM funding anomaly has also been taken up by the Association of Colleges (AOC), which is running a campaign to extend free lunches to students at FE and sixth-form colleges.

    BBC: Canteen

  • It also calls on the government to create a mechanism for sixth-form colleges to grow and to "promote the sector in the same way that academies and free schools are actively promoted by government".

    BBC: Education & Family

  • Report author Steven Jones found that although the students in the study all had the same A-level grades, 70% of those who were from independent schools went on to "a leading university" but just 50% of applicants from comprehensives and sixth-form colleges did so.

    BBC: Education & Family

  • "It makes little sense for the government to be actively promoting the establishment of new sixth-form providers that are not only demonstrably less efficient than sixth-form colleges, but also have little or no educational track record", said David Igoe, of the Sixth Form Colleges Association.

    BBC: Education & Family

  • "Unless we make the system sufficiently nimble to respond to dynamic demand it will not be fit for purpose, " Mr Hayes said, explaining that the proposals would get rid of "a raft of unnecessary and prescriptive duties" and "strip away central controls over further education and sixth-form colleges in respect of their governance and dissolution arrangements".

    BBC: Education Bill set to become law

  • We are in the worst-funded part of the education world and sixth form colleges in particular suffer other educational inequalities.

    BBC: Sixth-form funding dip 'could stymie' talent, Gove warned

  • Sixth form and further education colleges are usually in main towns - and if students are not on the route of buses, they will depend on lifts to bus stops.

    BBC: Transport barrier to rural education

  • Sixth form colleges already provide a similar variety for students doing some A-levels and some GCSEs at the same time.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | What future for sixth forms?

  • The Sixth Form Colleges' Forum said it was concerned about a reduction in Entitlement Funding which pays for extra-curricular activities.

    BBC: Hereford head warns colleges may close due to cuts

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