Further written evidence to be reported to the House
Education and Skills Bill
10:30 am
Ioan Morgan: It is about personalised care and individualisation, I think. The drop-out rate on our 14-to-16 programmes is very low, and I think that the comments from school colleagues show that we have retained them in the system, whereas if they stayed at school they would probably have been lost. It is about the product. It is the way in which they are treated. If you are trying to deal with a cohort that has had difficulty in school, and you throw more classroom-based activity at them in college, they are going to run away. You have to have a differentiated product that is appropriate.