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KEEP IN TOUCH:
UNDERSTANDING

PATHWAYS

Each post 16 education provider offers a different type of learning
experience and a variety of different qualifications. Therefore, it is
important your Son / Daughter understands all the different pathways
and what they entail to ensure they pick the route that is best for them.

Full-time education options for when you leave year 11...

School Sixth Form Further Education College
If your child attends a school that has a (FE College)
sixth form, they should consider this as an
option, as they already know the place, the Moving away from their current school
people and the teachers, so it can be a lot and studying at a college is a completely
less daunting. However, they can also apply different experience. Further education
to sixth forms at different schools. Make colleges are very large with lots of students
sure they speak to the head of sixth form at of all different ages studying full and part-
the school they currently attend, as well as time courses. Colleges offer a wide range
attending open days for others so they can of subjects, courses and facilities, so if they
make an accurate decision based on what are interested in attending college, they
they can offer. should attend their open days to find out
more about what is on offer and view the
Sixth Form College environment they would be working in.
Enrolling at a sixth form college gives
them the opportunity to have a fresh start, To find out more about the colleges in
meet new people, experience a different Worcestershire (Heart of Worcestershire
environment and meet new teachers and College, Kidderminster College,
support systems. Sixth form colleges are Warwickshire College Group) click here.
usually bigger than school sixth forms,
so the choice of subjects and courses is
usually greater too. TOP TIP:

To find out more about the sixth form in If you are looking to go to
Worcestershire, click here. university in the future, check
the entry requirements of the
course you would like to study
before you make your post-16
option www.ucas.com

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