Sentence examples for post-compulsory education from inspiring English sources

Education after the age of sixteen is often called post-compulsory education, with the important implication that students choose to stay on, and also, in staying on, they choose which subjects to study and for what purposes.

There seems therefore no doubt that the under-attainment of NW students applying to university, be it for medicine or in general, is part of a broader pattern of under-attainment throughout pre-school education, compulsory and post-compulsory education, perhaps exaggerated at A level by greater educational aspirations in NW students.

Given the upward trend in post-compulsory education in most countries, workers who retire are on average less educated than workers who enter the labour market.

And argue once and for all that post-compulsory education, further and higher, should be given equal support".

However, it would be nice to see such a vision addressing improvements in both compulsory and post-compulsory education.

Dr Geoffrey Elliott Professor of post-compulsory education, University of Worcester, and Hertford College, Oxford, 1971-72.

The dependent variable PC c is a dummy variable defining participation in post compulsory education.

Only 16 year olds who are surveyed between September and December are included to ensure information on their post- compulsory education decision is available.

Our sub-sample consists of those children observed in LFS at ages 16 to 18 inclusive (and therefore have made their decision with respect to post compulsory education participation) which is approximately 56,000 observations, or 4% of all LFS respondents.

Due to these age restrictions, the key outcome of interest in this paper is the decision to participate in post-compulsory schooling, defined as a dummy equal to one if the 16 to 18 year old child is either in post compulsory education at present or was in education between 16 and 18 but had left school by the time of interview6.

This aspect of employability is mostly utilised by secondary schools rather than higher education in the USA and serves as a mechanism to ensure that students, especially those with disabilities, are aware of the opportunities open to them beyond post compulsory education.