1.   A child who lives in a state that requires school attendance must attend some acceptable school during the years of compulsory education.

2.   Compulsory state education for all is, in the historical sense, a recent phenomenon.

3.   I suspect this, like compulsory religious education, gave me a lifelong scepticism about obligatory elements in any curriculum.

4.   Parents usually keep their children at home for a couple of years after they have completed their six years of compulsory education.

5.   The law which makes Work Experience possible for young people in their last year of compulsory education specifically forbids their receiving payment.

6.   The State advances two primary arguments in support of its system of compulsory education.

7.   It was regarded as a way of forcing the emergence of a new curriculum and covered the last two years of compulsory secondary education and two years in FE.

8.   China forbids child labor by law and children receive nine years of compulsory education.

9.   In a country with no private schools and compulsory education until ninth grade, parents are forced to send their children to state-run schools.

10.   In his speech, he pledged to open the financial markets to more competition, reduce bureaucracy and expand compulsory education to nine years, from the current six.