During the last twenty years we have seen huge expansion in the number of schools opening sixth form departments as part of their educational provision. This has been reflected in many Catholic schools where a sixth form was seen as a jewel in the crown, especially in schools which were already popular and oversubscribed.
Certainly many dioceses and governing bodies offered great encouragement to schools who thought of developing post 16 provision and significant finance was allocated to the development of state of the art sixth form accommodation.
