While sixth form colleges provided 18 hours of direct teaching and support to their students in 2012/13 they are planning to reduce this to 15 hours by 2016/17.
“This is between seven to 10 hours less than required and is not a choice – it is a consequence of the current 16 to 19 funding settlement,” said David Igoe, chief executive of the Sixth Form Colleges Association (SFCA), which produced the report.
Costing the Sixth Form Curriculum warns that sixth formers in England risk being left behind by their international peers as a result of a “low hours and short duration” sixth form model. It claims that from 2016, youngsters at sixth form colleges in England will receive only half as much teaching as students get in places like Shanghai and Singapore.
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