ABSTRACT
In the preceding chapters, we have examined in some detail the process of transition from sixth form to work or to further education. The data for the research were gathered by questionnaire from the upper-sixth forms of mixed grammar and comprehensive schools in Birmingham, Shropshire and Herefordshire. Clearly, this sample was by no means random; the results therefore cannot be generalised to all grammar and comprehensive school upper-sixth formers. The first two chapters set the scene for the research, giving the background to the problem and details of the population studied. Attention was concentrated on five problems: the place of non-academic factors in selection, the nature of the sixth form, current trends in higher education, the transition from school to college itself and wastage at the end of the sixth form.
