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Misery for Sneyd school’s sixth form students
Express & Star 8 Apr 10
Up to 40 children will be forced to find new colleges half way through their A-level studies after it emerged Sneyd School’s sixth form is to shut this year. National education chiefs at the Learning and Skills Council say the low numbers using the sixth form at the Vernon Way site make it “unviable” and have said they will axe its funding in July.
Schools chiefs today said efforts would be made to ensure alternative places are found for the 40 students currently in their first year of the sixth form.
And it also emerged today that a total of only 60 children would still be on the roll at the school which has space for almost 1,400 for its final academic year before closure in August 2012…