"It's limited what you can do here, particularly in the sixth form, " he said.
By the time they leave the sixth form we have encouraged them to become very individual learners.
It would instead become a stand-alone qualification, taken alongside full A-levels after two years in the sixth form.
James Kewin of the Sixth Form Colleges Association told BBC News that his members would be particularly badly affected.
BBC: Sixth-form funding dip 'could stymie' talent, Gove warned
The advantage of taking GCSEs in Y10 is that pupils at Colyton spend three years in the sixth form.
The Sixth Form Colleges' Forum said it was concerned about a reduction in Entitlement Funding which pays for extra-curricular activities.
Most sixth forms also offer students far greater freedom in the sixth form than they had lower down the school.
The changes to A-levels were intended to broaden the sixth form curriculum, to stop students specialising too early, typically in three subjects.
While Rae was at Westminster the number of pupils increased by a third and girls were successfully integrated into the sixth form.
The spokesman also said that the figures quoted by the Sixth Form Colleges Association were "misleading" as they related to funding for two different age groups.
By the sixth form, he had gone from a quiet studious boy to a popular outgoing young man, known among friends as the life and soul of a party.
One task which many teachers will have to face for the first time is a new duty to teach what are known as the Key Skills through all the sixth form courses.
For parents, it would mean that in financial terms, sending a child to university would be similar to their being in the sixth form at school or college, with the family typically providing accommodation but with no fees for tuition.
"It makes little sense for the government to be actively promoting the establishment of new sixth-form providers that are not only demonstrably less efficient than sixth-form colleges, but also have little or no educational track record", said David Igoe, of the Sixth Form Colleges Association.
The regulations leave Cambridge's Hills Road, which has consistently ranked among the top three state sixth form colleges in the country, along with Long Road Sixth Form Colleges and Cambridge Regional College, paying hundreds of thousands of pounds in VAT.
The school at Two Boats has an enthusiastic, experienced new headmaster, but there is no longer a fund to provide for the sixth-form education of its most promising students in the UK (the island's school only goes up to Britain's GCSE level, and thus to the age of about 16).
"In our assembly for the whole sixth form you could feel people bristling as she explained parts of the letter and encouraged us to sign the petition, " a pupil was quoted as saying.
He was in the sixth-form of Forest Hill School and excelled in sport, music and acting.
With the exception of its sixth form building, the 1, 250-capacity secondary school, which was originally built for 500 students in the 1950s, needs a complete rebuild, according to deputy head teacher Steve Ostler.
It's an argument familiar to Sir Bob Russell, who has already told the Commons that Colchester Sixth Form College was the most successful in the country but that the funding given for each student was less than that given to students who attended school sixth forms.
He said the three year sixth form enabled them to deliver a "very much broader curriculum, we are not just delivering the specification".
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Several other measures are geared towards boosting the number of academies, for example the dropping of the requirement for academies to have a subject specialism and the extension of the programme to sixth form colleges.
On top of this, says the paper, sixth-form colleges have been hit hard by cuts, while the government has offered preferential funding to academies and free schools with sixth forms.
Maths is the most popular subject for the oldest, sixth-form pupils, followed by sciences.
School friends from The Burgate School and Sixth Form in Fordingbridge also set up a Facebook page.
We are in the worst-funded part of the education world and sixth form colleges in particular suffer other educational inequalities.
BBC: Sixth-form funding dip 'could stymie' talent, Gove warned
Dr Huppert asked the Mr Alexander about the VAT paid by sixth form colleges and further education colleges in 2012.
Many universities base their offers of places to students on the results of AS-levels which are taken in the first year of sixth form study.
Mr Robertson said he could have written a better case for atheism and described most of the arguments as "sixth form schoolboy variety".
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