Under Manchester’s bus system, 16 to 18 year-olds also receive free bus travel to help them continue with their education.<\/p>\n
Students from Penair School in Truro starting college in the autumn said they would like to see something similar. <\/p>\n
Maisy said: “I’m going to have to take two different journeys every single morning and after school. <\/p>\n
“That will cost \u00a38 a day, which I think is really extortionate.”<\/p>\n
Tom agreed: “The college is about \u00a3850 for a bus pass, so it’s quite challenging.”<\/p>\n
Cara said: “The best option is to get the bus but, obviously, it’s a tricky decision just because of the price and whether it’s worth it.”<\/p>\n
Reece added: “I don’t live within walking distance to anywhere that I would like to go, so buses I have to rely on heavily.”<\/p>\n
Luke Bazeley, deputy principal of Cornwall College, agreed transport was a “huge barrier” to young people’s life chances.<\/p>\n
“Where you live shouldn’t dictate your opportunities. <\/p>\n
“When they come for an open day, they go away and look at financially what that looks like for their parents – it does actually put them off and they maybe fall out of education,” he explained. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under Manchester’s bus system, 16 to 18 year-olds also receive free bus travel to help them continue with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-686498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}