The school at Two Boats has an enthusiastic, experienced new headmaster, but there is no longer a fund to provide for the sixth-form education of its most promising students in the UK (the island's school only goes up to Britain's GCSE level, and thus to the age of about 16).

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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.

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Dr Huppert asked the Mr Alexander about the VAT paid by sixth form colleges and further education colleges in 2012.

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