More in further education one year after high school

More in further education one year after high school

A year after having completed upper secondary education are more people in higher education. Children and Education Minister welcomes, but the goal is not reached.
The number of secondary school pupils is the highest in 10 years. More are enrolled in higher education one year after graduating from upper secondary education. Fewer starts with a vocational secondary education after having completed upper secondary education. It shows the Ministry of Children and Education data bank which is updated with the number of pupils for 2010.

The best way to work

Children and Education Christine Antorini welcomes the development. She stresses that youth education is the best way to further education and the labor market. "The development is in line with the government's goal that 95 percent of all young people complete secondary education. There is no need to use resources to take two secondary schools, so it is encouraging that fewer choose the solution. But even if it goes the right way, we are far from the goal, and the government is committed to improve the quality of secondary education and make it attractive and enabling all young people to get an education, "says Christine Antorini. More start further education upper secondary education in 2010 had an intake of 51,000 students. That's 10,200 more students than in 2003. Of the students who completed upper secondary education in 2009, started 51 percent higher education within 15 months. In 2003 the proportion was 37 percent. The increase is constant. Only seven percent of the students who completed upper secondary education in 2009, began a training within 15 months. In 2005 the figure was 13 percent. In 2010 went well 713,600 students in primary, 131,500 in secondary school, while 128,200 were enrolled in vocational education. Source: UVM