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.
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.
And argue once and for all that post-compulsory education, further and higher, should be given equal support".
The work JISC consultant Helen Beetham has carried out with and behalf of JISC, a government-funded body promoting innovation in post-compulsory education, bears this out.
With the majority of their contemporaries going on to post-compulsory education, the stakes are immensely higher and students work much harder.
How can staff in colleges whose experience has generally been confined to teaching people of post-compulsory education achieve success with young people who have been deemed beyond the scope of their schools?
The study found this could be linked to higher levels of participation in post-compulsory education.
6We may thus underestimate participation if individuals postpone attending post-compulsory education until they are over 18.
The paper is structured as follows: In the second section post-compulsory education and training alternatives in Germany are illustrated.
