ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the most effective and economical ways in which sixth-form can be given adequate provision with the least disturbance to a common curriculum in the first five years. Although, it discusses possible changes in its examination structure, it seems sensible to assume that A-level, O-level and CSE will be the basis of the programme in the foreseeable future. If a school undertakes to broaden its sixth-form curriculum by making general studies a coherent common core, there are important questions to be faced, and all the staff should be invited to face them. A 1970 Schools Council survey of sixth-form pupils and teachers discovered that half of Britain's sixth-formers find the transfer from the fifth form difficult. The sixth-form may well have to share part of their accommodation for part of the time, perhaps with the fifth form for lunches, perhaps with the expressive arts faculty, of which their accommodation might be a separated annexe.
