The report 'Education at a Glance' shows that more teenagers give up on education at the age of 16 in Britain than in most other industrialised countries. On the eve of a major stakeholder consultation event on the Sussex Learning & Skills Council’s strategic area review (StAR) what does this mean for Brighton & Hove?
The report indicates that the quarter of individuals who drop out of education at the age of 16 were least likely to re-enter education at a later date or get well paid jobs. More worryingly the number of young people with basic qualifications (NVQ Level 2 or 5 GCSE passes at grades A to C) had failed to increase.
The statistics are based on a study of those people that left school in 1994 but the department of education insists that educational standards have improved over the past decade and the government’s drive to focus on basic qualifications (which includes free access to NVQ Level 2 qualifications) has made a dramatic difference.
In Brighton & Hove statistics for 2004 school leavers showed that the city was about 5% behind the national average. In 2005, despite an overall increase in attainment levels to 55% of school leavers gaining 5 GCSEs at grades A to C, we have slipped to over 6% below national average for NVQ Level 2.
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