UK PM wants all pupils to study maths to 18

I'm not really sure what my thoughts are on compulsory education like this. But I will say, when I went to high school (in canada) you could opt out of any more math at 15, but somehow had to keep taking English, which meant English literature, right through high school. Forcing someone to read Great Expextations isn't obviously more important than, say, learning trigonometry or to find the slope of a lign

Probably to make up for the fact that the education system is utter shit. I'm relatively fresh out of it (21) and if I had to stay on after turning 16 it would have held me back significantly. If I was let out at 14 I'd probably have fared better.

Apprenticeships are underrated. Let students specialise and stop torturing them with irrelevant bullshit. Not once have I needed anything I was taught in maths beyond year 9. Study of English literature was particularly excruciating.