Diminished Returns: How Raising the Leaving Age to 18 Will Harm Young People and the Economy

Jan 14, 2008

Leading academic and former government advisor Professor Alison Wolf reports how the British Government have ludicrously over-estimated the benefits of raising the education and training leaving age to 18 and massively under-estimated the costs.

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