Many years of effort to get young people in a youth education seems to bear fruit. More and more young people choose to start a youth education directly after the 9th or 10th grade.

Almost all students in 9th and 10th grade, equivalent to about 95,000, has taken a position on what to do after the summer holidays. According to the preliminary statistics from 2009 the year registering for training from 9th and 10th grade. The statement shows that just 93 percent of young people leaving school, enroll in secondary education. The figures also show that the proportion of young people who want a high school youth education after 9th or 10th grade again this year has increased. An increasingly smaller proportion of students choose 10th grade. "It is gratifying that more young people go faster in a youth education, and that the residual group falls by almost a third. Now we need to maintain them. Fortunately, the latest figures show that the dropout rate in vocational schools has been reduced by about a quarter from 21 percent to 16 percent. I am confident that we are on the right track in terms of achieving the objective that 95 percent of all young people a secondary education in 2015, "said Education Minister Bertel Haarder. He is very pleased that the HTX continues progressing. "Htx are now finding over the country, and students in the schools are very satisfied with the program. In particular, the creative and innovative environment attracts many. I am happy to see that many young people are flocking to this new shining star of the education sky "says Bertel Haarder. The figures also show a slight decrease in the search directly from 9th and 10th grade for vocational training. On the other hand, there is a slightly higher increase in the number of young people who choose a vocational secondary education. One can not read the numbers as an expression of general decline in applications for training, because only about a third of the students enrolled in vocational training, which comes directly from primary or tenth grade. Conversely, almost all students who start secondary education (hf excluded), directly from the primary school or 10th grade. Developments in the search pattern for young people leaving the 9th and 10th grade Source: Ministry of Education