Academics have warned of “significant implementation problems” when the education leaving age is raised to 17 next year and then to 18 in 2015.
Researchers from the Institute of Education have been monitoring preparations for the reforms and comparing them with the run-up to the raising of the school leaving age (ROSLA) to 16, which took place 40 years ago this month.
From next summer, all young people in England will have to remain in education or training until the end of the academic year in which they turn 17.
However, the researchers are warning that schools and colleges will face problems as the new system kicks in, not least with absenteeism.
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