ABSTRACT
Long Road Sixth Form College is one of Cambridgeshire Education Committee's comprehensive secondary schools in the City of Cambridge and in the south of the county. It occupies the buildings of, and developed from, the former Cambridgeshire High School for Girls, a girls' grammar school with a strong academic tradition. From 1974 to 1979 the college admitted students of both sexes into the sixth form alongside the high school students who were completing their 11 to 16 education. A formal background of work experience was not a tradition of the college; not least because of the lack of time and administrative assistance necessary for its implementation. Many staff believed that most students held Saturday or evening jobs and that many worked during part of their vacations. While the experience is socially and economically satisfactory, it does not, provide any real opportunity for 'job-sampling' and may, in fact, provide an unnecessarily unflattering and distorted view of industry or retailing.
