Sentence examples for leavers up from inspiring English sources

The event has grown since a local travel agent brought 180 school leavers up from Sydney in the 1980s.

ONE person out of every three who graduated from university in the past six years is in a job requiring only the skills of a school-leaver, up from one in four a decade ago.

Dirige, who teaches at Dadaab, said many school leavers end up teaching younger children in the camp because they lack opportunities for further study.

Though degrees have remained a popular choice, since 2010 the number of school leavers taking up apprenticeships has risen by over 20%.

Ministers admit that standards remain unacceptably low, with 53% of looked-after children leaving school with no qualifications, and disproportionately high numbers of care leavers ending up in prison, as teenage parents or homeless.

There are indications the trend of care leavers ending up in custody continues into adulthood: 31% of women and 24% of men in the adult prison population report come from care.

The clearing process, meanwhile, by which universities fill remaining places on their courses, is expected to be frenetic once school leavers pick up their results, with universities deploying hundreds of telephone operators and admissions staff in a race to snap up the best students.

This is now approaching 5% of university leavers - up from 3% in the middle of the last decade.

He said Labour had a plan for the number of school leavers taking up an apprenticeship, to match the number of those going to university by 2025.

Academic standards are high: 93% of GCSE students attain A*-C grades; there is a 100% pass rate at A-Level; and 100% of A-Level leavers take up places at universities (10% to Oxbridge) or on gap year schemes.

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development – which represents people working in human resources – has concluded what anyone in their twenties already knows: that the all-party consensus to get more young people into higher education is no longer justified, given student debt and the careers many uni leavers end up in.