9,000 quit school before Leaving Cert [IrishTimes]
- Published: 14 April 2010
APPROXIMATELY 9,000 teenagers are leaving school every year without completing second-level education, a trend that has serious implications for their long-term job prospects, according to an ESRI report to be published today.
The most comprehensive study of early school-leaving patterns to have been undertaken by the ESRI has found gender and social class are strong determinant factors in early school-leaving patterns, with young men from working-class or unemployed households most likely to leave school before completing the Leaving Certificate.
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