How many years for Sixth Form?

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Sorry for my ignorance, but I honestly dont know how many years it lasts! 2 years or 3?

And we Brits aren't any cleverer than the rest of the world.

Not commenting on that!
However, school start at 4, so British parents get an extra year of free child care! (2 actually considering that Norwegian kids start school the year they turn 7!)

Bunbaker - no, not at all. Or at least, none of the kids I know seem to find it particularly pressured. Re funding - our LA is one of the most underfunded in the country, sadly. But you can't really compare a comp with a grammar school, your comp sounds excellent.

Surely Norwegians go to university at 18 though? Just as we do...

So can somebody clarify what happens with funding if 6th formers repeat a year? DN mucked up her AS levels last year so has dropped two subjects, is continuing with the remaining two to A2 level and has taken up two new ones which, I believe, she will sit at AS this year and then do the remaining A2s in those subjects next year. Will the school be funded for her extra year? I ask because DBIL, who is divorced from her mother without particularly good communication, is struggling to understand what is going on. It seems she can take three years but can she combine these A2s from different years to go to university?

Unexpected - yes her school or college will get three years of funding for her. In terms of whether universities will accept four A Levels done over three years - plenty will yes, although the most competitive courses / institutions probably won't.

AtomicDog -I am a February child, I turned 19 in my last year of 6th form, so I was 19 when I started Uni. Although, in my day, primary was 6 years, secondary was 3 years and sixth form 3 years, so I only did 12 years! But I started school at 7.

Actually, I think school age has dropped till 6 now.

My niece, also February born, was 19 when she started Uni, but turned 20 this year, and will sit her first year uni exams this spring.

They also follow the calendar year when they determine when a child starts school, to complicates things a little! A child born in December will start school a year earlier than a child born in January.

All children born in 2002 would start school autumn 2008. (from my sons peer group in Norway, Jasper and Erik were born in November 2001, so they started in 2007, my son was born April 2002, but Henry was born January 2002, and they started school in 2008. While we lived there a few years)

Sixth forms get funding for Y14, but it is much reduced now, hence them not being keen on keeping people three years (as they tend not to be able to pay teaching staff less for teaching Y14s!).

All the best people are born in February!