Your editorial (“End of an ethos”) and the Education Supplement (17 May) made very interesting reading. In the light of what was said there, is anything being done about the steady erosion of our Catholic sixth forms, which seem to be worse here in Wales than in other parts of the UK? Antagonistic and non-supportive local education authorities (LEAs) are steadily destroying our sixth forms, with little or no resistance being shown by diocesan trustees, who sometimes seem to be either weak or easily led by a dominant personality.The transfer of pupils at 16+ to a sixth-form college may be a valid alternative in some city areas where the numbers make it possible to create a Catholic sixth-form college. Elsewhere, the transport problems created and/or the lower numbers of Catholi