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Should we simply force young people to remain in education How should young people be encouraged to better themselves One idea, (47) by the previous Labor government in 2004, was to introduce an "education maintenance allowance", which paid up to ￡ 30 a week for college attendance to 16-18-year-olds from families with an annual (48) of ￡ 30,810 or less. The money was (49) to persuade parents who would otherwise push their children into low-paid manual work to direct them into training (50) .
Yet a study. (51) by the previous government and published just before last year’s election found that only 12% of the teenagers receiving the allowance said they would not be able to attend college without it. That was seized on by the incoming education secretary, Michael Gove, who is (52) the allowance in England. On January 19th, students across England protested (53) the decision as MPs(国会议员) debated it.
Some 650,000 teenagers—almost half of all youngsters in post-compulsory education—claim the allowance. The money was supposed to be spent on bus fares, books and the like, but some (54) have wasted it away on things such as make-up and mobile phones.
The Institute for Fiscal (财政的)Studies, a think-tank, (55) reckons that channeling ￡560 million a year into poor families in this way was (56) . It calculated that the money wasted on the 88% of recipients who would have attended college anyway was outweighed(比...重要) by the savings made on the 12% who wouldn’t have.

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