Abstract
This paper examines the educational philosophy behind the creation of sixth form colleges that were a feature of many local schools reorganisations in England in the period from 1966 to 1990. A comparison is drawn with the situation since the Further and Higher Education Act of 1992. The writer draws on two independent studies of religious education in the post‐16 sector and compares their findings with the inspection reports commissioned by the Further Education Funding Council (1994‐6). The central hypothesis is that government policies of the past five years have been counter‐productive for religious education and that documents such as the Dearing Report of 1996 are largely irrelevant to those working in this area of the Further Education sector.
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