www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21162960
www.channel4.com/news/a-quarter-of-schools-fail-to-give-pupils-any-decent-gcses
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/01/24/school-league-tables-one-universities_n_2541051.html
The trouble with each of the above headlines is that they are implying that it is a problem with the Sixth form sector rather than a strength.
Taking my home county as an example.
Peter Symonds, Barton Peverill, Brockenhurst College and the like got loads and loads of kids into RG Unis.
That is because they specialise in A levels.
Totton College, Eastleigh College and Sparsholt College are in the "25%" because they specialise in other types of courses
- that keep our cars on the road, our houses maintained and our farm animals healthy.
One of the weaknesses of NHS hospitals is they try to be all things to all people.
One of the strengths of 6th form colleges is that they specialise.
And long may it continue.