(02 Nov 2013, 10:19 pm)Dan wrote Isn't it the 2014/15 academic year? I'm sure I have to stay in education now rather than going out to get a job immediately if that's what I wanted.
My mam keeps on mentioning the fact that surely 'the people who make the POP cards' must be going to bump the age up to 'Under 18' if everyone has to be in some form of education from next year, but I just don't see it happening. Haven't they already released something specific to the Metro for that purpose?
As ever with the government, it's never simply put! Extract from their website below:
The government has increased the age to which all young people in England must continue in education or training, requiring them to continue until the end of the academic year in which they turn 17 from 2013 and until their 18th birthday from 2015.
This means that pupils who left year 11 in summer 2013 need to continue in education or training until at least the end of the academic year in which they turn 17. Pupils starting year 11 or below in September 2013 will need to continue until at least their 18th birthday.
http://www.education.gov.uk/childrenandy...pation/rpa
That being said, you'd expect councils and ITAs to be forced to subsidise fares until such age. If a commercial operator turned round and decided to scrap such scheme, there'd be nothing stopping them do so. I don't know about other areas, but surely a case to raise POP to Under 18.