SIR - Now there is a proposal to make education compulsory until the age of 18 perhaps this would be a good opportunity to re-structure secondary education in Bradford, especially since there are plans to rebuild many of the secondary schools.

My proposal is to make secondary schools 11-16 years, with provision for some non-academic courses to GCSE level, as now, and then to build an appropriate number of sixth form colleges for the 16-18 year-olds.

These could work alongside the current Bradford, Shipley and Keighley Colleges, which already offer many academic and practical courses.

The new colleges could offer all aspects of academic and vocational courses necessary, from maths, physics and chemistry to painting and decorating and hairdressing.

In other words, sixth form colleges would provide appropriate learning, training for all students, in such a way that they will be engaged in their own future.

I am sure that this system would have more to offer than the current one, because students will move to the college of their choice, offering the course which interests them.

Mrs Elaine Milner, Lynnwood Garden, Pudsey