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Contents  Appendix VI: Youth Pathways/LSYPE Charts in Full

Appendix VII: Apprenticeship figures and trends

Appendix VIII: Mathematics and English Post-16

Appendix IX: Extending the common core: the trend to delayed specialisation

Bibliography

Endnotes

Acknowledgements

Many hundreds of people contributed evidence to this review. I cannot list them all but would like to thank them for their insights and honesty, and for the fascinating background material which so many also provided. Respondents expressed some very different opinions on a number of points, and so obviously my conclusions will not all please everyone. However, I would like to emphasise how seriously we took the evidence and submissions we received, and how much we appreciate people’s willingness to contribute and help and to alert me to relevant research and findings. I would also like to say how very much I enjoyed the visits I was able to make and to thank everyone involved in organising them.

A number of people deserve special thanks. Stella Pearson, my secretariat was as efﬁcient and unflappable as it is possible for anyone to be. I would like to thank Glenna Pryor, who provided support from BIS, for her substantial help with the Review; and Magdalen Meade for providing some superb figures to illustrate my argument. A number of individuals – Anna Vignoles, Hilary Steedman, Nick Linford, Alison Fuller, Amanda Spielman –responded to last-minute appeals for help and information and would like to record my gratitude. Analysts from DfE, YPLA and CAYT provided me with excellent statistical and analytic support and will, I hope, feel that have understood and used their material appropriately.

Finally, I am, of course grateful to the Secretary of State for Education for inviting me to carry out this review. It was an honour to do so, and I hope that its conclusions will help to improve the vocational education system of this country. 3