Many people in the teaching profession are extremely alarmed and apprehensive about the consequences of raising theschool-leavingageand this would meet their point.
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There was a building programme for the raising of theschool-leavingage, which will come to an end because it will have been completed.
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The raising of theschool-leavingageshould help to increase opportunity in those areas where it is most needed.
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I am including children of pre-school age and young people beyond the statutoryschool-leavingage.
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I may say, in passing, that the same view was taken in 1948, when theschool-leavingagewas raised from 14 to 15.
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