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PLANS to merge Fareham College with St Vincent College on the Daedalus site have been opposed by Lib Dem councillor Peter Davies, spokesmen on planning and transportation.
Peter Davies says: 'In all the discussion about the merging of colleges in Fareham and Gosport, the plight of A-level students in the borough of Fareham seems to have been forgotten. 'At present, Fareham is one of only two local authority areas in Hampshire which does not have a sixth form college, so 1600 Fareham students wishing to attend an academically focussed sixth form college with the whole range of proper A levels, have to travel outside the borough to Winchester, Havant, Southampton or Gosport, at the expense to their parents of hundreds of pounds a year. 'Now it seems that the Learning & Skills Council wishes to abolish the Sixth Form College in Gosport. 'Do they not realise that the history of British education in the last 40 years shows that it is folly to abolish good educational institutions? 'Nationally, education has suffered by the wilful destruction of hundreds of good grammar schools.'
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