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October 7, 2010 at 9:00 am · Filed under Education ·Tagged Qualifications, School leavers, Scottish schools
These statistics were published in September 2010.
“Statistics on qualifiers from higher education courses at Scottish higher education institutions ( HEIs) and Scottish colleges for 2008-09 are published today by Scotland’s Chief Statistician, along with survey information on the first destinations of EU domiciled qualifiers from HEIs in the same year. The publication reports on all higher education qualifications, including those at HNC/ HND level and students that upgraded their previous higher education qualification. This updates the publication issued on the 8 th December 2009. Scottish domiciled qualifiers from the Open University in Scotland are included.
Key Findings:
Qualifiers
- The number of Higher Education ( HE) qualifiers from Scottish institutions has continued to rise, in the most recent year by 0.8 percent (695 qualifiers), to a record high of 84,030 in 2008-09. This increase was mostly due to a rise of 990 in the number of HNC/ HND qualifications obtained and a rise of 515 in the number of first degree qualifications obtained.
- Scottish colleges saw an increase in qualifiers of 5.9 percent (1,260), to 22,465 in 2008-09, mostly due to an increase in the combined numbers of HNC/ HNDs awarded (increasing by 1,225 or 8.9 percent). This increase accounts for the majority of the total increase in qualifiers from all Scottish institutions in 2008-09.
- Scottish Higher Education Institutions ( HEIs) saw a decrease in qualifiers of 0.9 percent (565). This was mostly due to a decrease of 10.1 percent (760) in the number of students gaining undergraduate qualifications other than at first degree or HNC/ HND level. There was an increase of 1.6 percent (500) in the number of first degree qualifiers from Scottish HEIs.
- The number of qualifications obtained by Scottish students remained stable at 61,435. This was an increase of 15 on 2007-08 when there was 61,420 Scottish qualifiers.
- Scots domiciles account for nearly three quarters of qualifiers from Scottish institutions (73.1 percent) in 2008-09. This is down from 73.7 percent in 2007-08. Qualifications obtained by international students accounted for 18.0 percent of all qualifiers (15,105) in 2008-09. This is the same proportion as in 2007-08.
First Destinations
- 88.4 percent of qualifiers from higher education courses at Scottish Higher Education Institutions ( HEIs) were in employment or further study/training 6 months after completing their course. This is a decrease of 1.4 percentage points on 2007-08.
- 62.3 percent of qualifiers from higher education courses at Scottish HEIs were in permanent or temporary UK employment 6 months after completing their course. A further 22.5 percent were engaged in further study or training. 76.1 percent of those in permanent UK employment were employed in graduate level occupations. 6.1 percent of qualifiers were believed to be unemployed.
- Of qualifiers in permanent UK or overseas employment the proportion employed in Scotland has decreased by 0.2 percentage points from 80.7 percent in 2007-08 to 80.5 percent in 2008-09. 92.5 percent of Scots qualifiers in permanent employment were employed within Scotland. This is an increase of 0.5 percentage points on 2007-08.
- 66.5 percent of Scots postgraduate and first degree qualifiers from Scottish HEIs were employed in graduate level occupations within Scotland or engaged in further study or training 6 months after completing their higher education course. This figure is used as a proxy indicator in ‘Scotland Performs’ 1. The figure has fallen by 1.9 percentage points from 68.4 percent during the previous year.”
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July 7, 2010 at 9:00 am · Filed under Education ·Tagged School leavers, Secondary education
This report was published in June 2010.
This report “presents national information on the destination status of young people approximately 9 months after they left school, from the 2008/09 school year.
Main Findings
The leavers follow up survey of young people from school year 2008/09 shows us that:
- The proportion of school leavers in sustained positive destinations (higher or further education, employment, voluntary work or training) was 85.1 per cent in March 2010, approximately 9 months after leaving school. This compares to 84.0 per cent of school leavers in positive destinations in March 2009 ( Table 1).
- The proportion of school leavers in further or higher education rose from 51.0 per cent in March 2009 to 57.5 per cent in March 2010 ( Table 2).
- The proportion in employment in March 2010 fell to 22.9 per cent compared to 28.5 per cent in March 2009 ( Table 2).
- The proportion unemployed (either seeking, or not seeking, employment or training) decreased from 15.4 per cent in March 2009 to 14.5 per cent in March 2010 ( Table 2).
- The proportion of leavers in higher education decreased from 34.9 per cent in the initial survey to 33.6 percent in the follow up survey, this decrease is similar to that seen last year ( Table 3). There is minimal movement into higher education as people usually start education in September. The vast majority (92.7 per cent) of leavers who entered higher education remained there with small numbers moving to other destinations ( Table 4).
- The proportion of leavers in employment increased from 18.4 per cent in the initial survey to 22.9 per cent in the follow up survey, this increase of 4.5 percentage points is higher than the increase seen last year (3.2 percentage points) ( Table 3). Of the leavers who entered employment in the initial survey 86.1 per cent remained there ( Table 4).
- The proportion of leavers in training decreased from 5.1 per cent to 4.4 per cent, this decrease is the same as that seen last year ( Table 3). Of the leavers in training in the initial survey only 30 per cent remained there ( Table 4). However, over 14 per cent of leavers who were initially unemployed seeking moved into training. The large amount of movement to and from the training category demonstrates the short term nature of many training opportunities.
- It should be noted that the initial number of school leavers from the 2008/09 school year was down 9 per cent compared to 2007/08. This is a result of a falling school age population and increased staying on rates, the S4 to S5 staying on rate to September of the following school year increased by around 3 percentage points, while the S4 to S6 staying on rate increased by around 5 percentage points.”
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April 12, 2010 at 9:00 am · Filed under Education, Social Sciences ·Tagged Education in Scotland, Employment, School leavers, Training, Young people
This report was published on 5th April 2010.
“This Framework sets out the Scottish Government’s policy on 16+ Learning Choices; its expectations for implementation; and clarifies the roles and responsibilities for the wide range of partners involved in supporting young people to progress into positive and sustained post-16 destinations. It is not prescriptive; rather, it offers local partnerships a useful framework for implementing and delivering post-16 learning choices . It explains to which young people an offer should be made; what constitutes an offer and what the offer process looks like. It also clarifies how success will be measured.”
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November 24, 2009 at 12:39 pm · Filed under Education ·Tagged School leavers
This document was published on the web on 24th November 2009.
“National and local authority level information on the destinations of leavers from publicly funded Scottish secondary schools”
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May 14, 2009 at 10:22 am · Filed under Education ·Tagged Education, School leavers, Scottish schools, Secondary schools
This report was published on 14th May 2009.
“This research uses data from the Scottish School Leavers Survey to examine the change over time in the context, outcomes and inequalities of secondary schooling in Scotland, in the period 1985-2005″
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