Up until 2000, the trend in the Western world has been for progressive raising of the school leaving age. Indeed many secondary schools in the UK have additional buildings built around the time of 'ROSLA' to cater for the extra people. The drive for the raising of the school leaving age was unemployment. An extra year of school makes a healthy dent in the unemployment figures. After all, if there are no jobs, why not continue people's education? This scenario needs more work to argue the case for it. We need to be shown more consequences...